Affordable Housing

(asked on 13th February 2020) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated under the (a) Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme (SOAHP) 2016 to 2021 and (b) addendum to the SOAHP published in June 2018 to each region (a) in total and (b) per capita.


Answered by
Christopher Pincher Portrait
Christopher Pincher
This question was answered on 24th February 2020

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.

The Mayor has overall responsibility for affordable housing policy and programme delivery in London. Government has agreed a £4.8 billion deal with the GLA.

Homes England is responsible for the delivery of the Affordable Homes Programme for the rest of England and have been allocated £4.9 billion.

The Department publishes spend information on spend in its yearly accounts which are available on gov.uk at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mhclg-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019

We do not publish annualised data on capital spend by local areas.

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