Affordable Housing: Cumbria

(asked on 3rd September 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps he has taken to ensure that there is a sufficient quantity of affordable homes in South Lakeland.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 11th September 2018

We have announced a range measures to support housing associations and local authorities to build more genuinely affordable homes across England.

We are giving councils the power to bid for an extra £1 billion additional borrowing to build a new generation of council housing and we have made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022 to deliver 250,000 new affordable homes of a wide range of tenures, including social rent homes where they are needed most.

The additional borrowing capacity and the delivery of social rent homes will be targeted to areas of high affordability pressures, such as South Lakeland, in a move to support families struggling to pay their rent.

We have also confirmed long-term rent certainty for social landlords in England and in August we published our consultation on options for allowing local authorities more flexibility in the use of their Right to Buy receipts.

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