Affordable Housing: Greater London
(asked on 24th 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, what estimate his Department has made of the number of new homes constructed by the Mayor of London from the £3.15 billion grant to London’s Affordable Homes Programme announced following the Autumn Statement in November 2016.
Answered by
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The Government has agreed a major package of funding for London through the Affordable Homes Programme with the Greater London Authority.
The Greater London Authority publish statistics every quarter to show how they are delivering new homes through the London Affordable Homes Programme. The latest figures can be found at:
Since 2010, we have delivered over 574,100 new affordable homes, including over 403,400 affordable homes for rent, of which over 154,600 homes for social rent. Over one fifth of overall delivery was in London (over 119,100), with over 81,500 for rent.