PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(10 February 2025)

This government is taking action to tackle the root causes of homelessness, including delivering the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation.

We have committed £500m to the third round of the Local Authority Housing Fund to enable local authorities to obtain better quality temporary accommodation.

We have allocated an additional £30 million for local authorities in England to provide support in safe accommodation for victims of domestic abuse and their children who need to flee their homes, bringing the total to £160 million in 2025/26.

We have made changes to the Right to Buy scheme, allowing local authorities to retain 100% of the receipts generated by Right to Buy sales and have consulted on a new five-year social housing rent settlement to provide the sector with the certainty it needs to invest in new social and affordable housing.

In October 2024, we announced an immediate one-year cash injection of £500 million to the 2021-2026 Affordable Homes Programme and we announced a further £300m boost on 12 February.

We will set out details of new investment to succeed the 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme at the Spending Review. This new investment will deliver a mix of homes for sub-market rent and homeownership, with a particular focus on delivering homes for Social Rent.