Local government shares the collective ambition to build more homes, and its focus is beyond bricks and mortar. The right homes in the right areas can have significant wider benefits for people and communities, and prevent future public service challenges and costs. House prices and rents continue to rise above incomes in ways that force difficult decisions on families, distort places, and hamper growth. It will take many years of significant housebuilding to begin reducing prices, meaning the need to build many more affordable homes is as important as ever. The Autumn Statement introduced a number of welcome measures supporting housebuilding across tenures, investing in affordable homes and infrastructure linked to housing growth. These were important asks in our preliminary findings, but there is much more to do. In advance of the Housing White Paper, this final commission report sets out recommendations for how local and national governments can work together to build more homes, and to build homes that meet the diverse needs of people, partners and places