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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Affordable Housing (4 December 2014)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been converted to the Government's affordable rent model since it was introduced.

Asked by:
Emma Reynolds (Labour)

Answer

The Homes and Communities Agency’s Statistical Data Returns report the number of rental accommodation properties that have been converted to affordable rent. The figures relate to private registered provider owned stock only, and can be found online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistical-data-return-statistical-releases

Detailed figures are not held centrally for local authority housing stock.

The change in rental income from such conversions allows providers to borrow more to support the delivery of more new affordable homes.

This Government has so far delivered 217,000 new affordable homes since 2010, and are bringing in £19.5 billion of public and private in affordable housing over the current Spending Review period. In the next Parliament, we are on track to deliver a further 275,000 new affordable homes, backed up by £38 billion of public and private investment.

Conversions are not counted in these additional affordable homes figures.


Answered by:
Sir Brandon Lewis (Conservative)
25 February 2015

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