Affordable Housing: Construction

(asked on 30th January 2020) - View Source

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to build 300,000 affordable homes a year.


Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie Portrait
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 13th February 2020

Boosting supply is one of the best things we can do to tackle affordability. We’ve delivered over 1.5 million new homes since 2010, and last year saw the highest level of delivery in over 30 years (241,000 new homes).

The Government is committed to increasing the supply of social housing and has made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022 to deliver approximately 250,000 new affordable homes in a wide range of tenures, including Social Rent. We are committed to renewing Programme beyond the current end date to further support our work bring more people into home ownership, and prevent people from falling into homelessness.

Since 2010, we have delivered over 464,500 new affordable homes in total, including those funded by the Affordable Homes Programme. Of these, over 331,800 were affordable homes for rent.

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