Housing Minister hails affordable housing success story
12 Jun 2014 02:49 PM
Kris Hopkins welcomes
new figures showing 200,000 new affordable homes have been delivered since
April 2010.
Nearly 200,000 new affordable
homes have been delivered since April 2010, new figures show. Housing Minister
Kris Hopkins welcomed the news as “a real success
story”.
Today’s (12 June 2014)
figures show there were 41,654 affordable homes started in the year to March
2014 – 15% higher than the previous year. In addition 125,000 of the
170,000 homes planned through the Affordable Homes programme, in which the
government is investing £19.5 billion public and private funding, have
now been delivered. It means that since April 2010, 197,792 new affordable
homes have been delivered. Overall, the government has delivered 445,000 new
homes since April 2010. In contrast, between 1997 and 2010 the number of social
housing homes dropped by 420,000.
Housing Minister Kris Hopkins
said:
Our affordable housebuilding
efforts are a clear success story, with nearly 200,000 new affordable homes
delivered since April 2010.
It means families from Newcastle
to Newquay have new homes available to them, whether to rent at an affordable
rate or to buy through our shared ownership schemes.
And this is on top of the wider
efforts we’re making, which means housebuilding is now at its highest
level since 2007.
Affordable housebuilding across
the country
The Affordable Homes programme
includes social rented homes, affordable rented homes and affordable home
ownership schemes, and is a key part of the government’s long-term
economic plan. And with every new home supporting a job this multi-billion
pound programme is helping get people back into work.
New affordable
homes
Council areas that have seen
some of the biggest numbers of affordable homes delivered since April 2010
include:
- Birmingham -
2,740
- Cornwall -
2,690
- Wiltshire -
2,620
- Leeds - 1,910
- Bristol -
1,830
- Manchester -
1,810
A fifth of the affordable homes
built last year, and a quarter of the total since 2010, were built in
London.
See the breakdown of affordable housing supply by local authority
district
The success of the Affordable
Homes programme is one of a number of indicators that Britain is building
following the end of the housing boom in 2008. Others include:
- planning permission was granted
for 216,000 new homes in England in 2013 to 2014
- the Help to Buy scheme has
helped over 27,000 people get on the property ladder with a fraction of the
deposit they would normally require – leading developers are building
more as a direct result of the scheme, with private housebuilding up a third
compared to last year
- new home registrations rose by
30% in 2013 in England, the highest since 2007, and are up 60% in London
– the highest for over 2 decades
- council housebuilding starts are
at a 23-year high
- housing starts are at their
highest since 2007
- the numbers of empty homes are
now at a 10-year low
Further
information
The latest Affordable Housing
statistics are published today.
Read more details of the government’s
efforts to get Britain building
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