Social Rented Housing: Finance
(asked on 31st October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the total reduction in funds available for social housing in England since 2010.
Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
This question was answered on 16th November 2022
Funding for new build affordable and social housing is made available through the Affordable Homes Programme. Since 2010 there have been 4 main programmes:
- The Affordable Homes Programme 2011 – 2015 - £4.5 billion
- The Affordable Homes Programme 2015-2018 - £3.3 billion (replaced by the 2016-2023 Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme)
- The Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016 – 2023 - £9 billion
- The Affordable Homes Programme 2021 – 26 - £11.5 billion