Affordable Housing: Construction
(asked on 20th July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, over what time period Homes England's target of at least 130,000 affordable housing starts applies.
This question was answered on 24th July 2020
The Government committed to increasing the supply of social housing and made £9 billion available through the Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022.
The existing Affordable Homes Programme?has been extended by one year and homes have to be started by March 2023.
This will save homes that would otherwise have been lost following site closures due to Covid-19.