Social Rented Housing: Construction

(asked on 10th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to introduce annual targets for local authorities on the delivery of new social housing in their local authority areas.


Answered by
Stuart Andrew Portrait
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 25th February 2022

It is for local authorities to identify the size, type and tenure of housing needed for different groups in the community, including those who require affordable housing, and reflect this in planning and other policies.

The Government has given local authorities a comprehensive range of tools to enable local authorities to deliver social housing, including through their own housebuilding programmes. This includes our £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme which councils can bid for, and the abolition of Housing Revenue Account (HRA) borrowing cap in 2018. Local authorities have also been given more freedom on how they can spend the money they receive from Right to Buy sales on replacement homes as well as continued access to low cost borrowing via the Public Works Loan Board. These reforms give local authorities greater flexibility to invest in new homes and the next generation of council housing.

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