Accredited official statistics

Housing Statistics December 2024, accessible version

Published 5 December 2024

Applies to England

1 April 2024 to 30 September 2024

Published 5 December 2024

1. Key results

1.1 In the 6-month period 1 April to 30 September 2024 there were 15,682 housing starts on site and 14,295 housing completions delivered through programmes managed by Homes England in England (excluding London for all programmes except those administered by Homes England on behalf of the Greater London Authority (GLA)).

1.2 Homes England manages the Help to Buy (Equity Loan) scheme in England, however, the completions were reported by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). These statistics are available from the webpage linked below^{[footnote 1]} and are excluded from this publication. The Help to Buy (Equity Loan) scheme closed to new applications in October 2022.

1.3 13,073 of housing starts on site in the first 6 months of 2024 to 2025 (representing 83% of all starts) were for affordable homes. This represents an increase of 12% on the 11,624 affordable homes started in the first 6 months of the previous year. The Shared Ownership and Affordable Housing Programme (SOAHP) 2016 to 2021 closed to new business in March 2024 and, over its lifetime, delivered 135,962 affordable starts on site against a programme target of 130,000.

1.4 Of the affordable homes started in the first 6 months of 2024 and 2025, 8,547 were started with the tenure to be confirmed^{[footnote 2]} , a decrease of 1% on the 8,598 started in the previous year. 2,002 were for Social Rent, an increase of 148% on the 807 started in the first 6 months of the previous year. A further 1,426 were for Intermediate Affordable Housing schemes, including Shared Ownership and Rent to Buy. This is an increase of 22% on the 1,166 started in the first 6 months of the previous year. The remaining 1,098 were for Affordable Rent, an increase of 4% on the 1,053 started in the first 6 months of 2023 to 2024. The programmes delivering the highest proportion of affordable starts were:

• the Affordable Housing Programme (AHP) 2021 to 2026 with 96%
• the Levelling Up - Home Building Fund (LU-HBF) with 2%
• the Single Land Programme (SLP) with 2%

1.5 10,434 or 73% of housing completions in the first 6 months of 2024 to 2025 were for affordable homes. This represents an increase of 32% on the 7,929 affordable homes completed in the first 6 months of 2023 to 2024.

1.6 Of the affordable homes completed in the first 6 months of 2024 to 2025, 5,062 were for Intermediate Affordable Housing schemes, including Shared Ownership and Rent to Buy, an increase of 63% on the 3,106 completed in the first 6 months of 2023 and 2024. 1,991 were for Social Rent, a 63% increase on the 1,218 completed in the first 6 months of 2023 and 2024.

The highest delivering programmes were:

• the Affordable Housing Programme (AHP) 2021 to 2026 with 59%
• the Shared Ownership and Affordable Housing Programme (SOAHP) 2016 to 2021 with 32%
• the Single Land Programme (SLP) with 4% (no change)

2. Introduction

Geographical coverage

2.1 This release presents the housing starts on site and housing completions delivered by Homes England between 1 April 2009 and 30 September 2024 in England excluding London (for both the current and historical series^{[footnote 3]}) with the exception of the Build to Rent (BtR), Builders Finance Fund (BFF), Get Britain Building (GBB), the Home Building Fund – Short Term Fund (HBF-STF) and the Levelling Up - Home Building Fund (LU-HBF) programmes which are administered by Homes England on behalf of the Greater London Authority (GLA) and where delivery covers all of England including London.

Purposes and uses

2.2 The figures in this release show the supply of affordable and market housing delivered through Homes England’s programmes^{[footnote 4]} except for Help to Buy (Equity Loan scheme), the statistics for which were published quarterly by MHCLG^{[footnote 5]} (this scheme closed on 31 May 2023). Further details on housing types are available in section 5 of the technical notes document accompanying this release^{[footnote 6]}. MHCLG also publishes annual statistics on affordable housing supply in England^{[footnote 7]} showing the gross annual supply of affordable homes, irrespective of funding mechanism. Further information on the Affordable Housing Supply and Help to Buy releases is provided in section 6 of the technical notes document.

2.3 The data in this release is used by MHCLG to monitor delivery of affordable homes as part of the MHCLG business plan (see paragraph 6.3 in the technical notes). Homes England uses the data to measure progress towards commitments made in its published Strategic Plan^{[footnote 8]} and its Annual Business Plan. Local authorities also use the data when compiling their annual return to MHCLG for the purpose of calculating the enhancement for affordable housing under the New Homes Bonus (NHB), a grant for local authorities to incentivise new housing supply.

What is included in this release?

2.4 This is the first release of data relating to delivery for the financial year ending 31 March 2025 and covers all current and historical programmes delivered by Homes England (summarised in Annex 1) to 30 September 2024. These include the acquisition of existing land or property as well as new house building, and some programmes that provide a mix of affordable and market housing. Affordable housing may be for home ownership (on Shared Ownership or Rent to Buy terms) or for rent.

2.5 Housing starts on site and housing completions are reported for each programme, where applicable.

2.6 A programme breakdown of the data is available in Table 1 of the tables accompanying this release^{[footnote 9]}. Further information on the accompanying tables is provided in section 4 of this release. Table A of the latest annual statistics on affordable housing supply in England published by MHCLG^{[footnote 10]} shows how Homes England’s programmes relate to the statistics on affordable housing published by MHCLG.

How is new subsidised housing provided?

2.7 Affordable homes delivered through Homes England programmes are funded by central government. The funding is administered by Homes England to fund investment partners (including private registered providers, house builders, community groups and local authorities) to deliver affordable housing.

2.8 With the exception of the Single Land Programme (SLP), funding for all programmes is allocated through an application and bidding process based on the assessment eligibility and criteria for each programme. Funding is paid in accordance with the contractual agreement for each programme. Investment for projects delivered under the SLP is determined in accordance with Homes England’s Framework Document^{[footnote 11]} and relevant commissioning template.

London

2.9 Since April 2012, the Mayor of London has had oversight of strategic housing, regeneration and economic development in London. This means that Homes England no longer publishes housing starts on site and completions for London, except where Homes England is administering a programme on behalf of the GLA. The historical series for London, which reflects past delivery by Homes England, is included in Homes England’s housing statistics published on 12 June 2012 (revised 24 August 2012). Due to its age this publication is no longer available on the housing statistics page on the Homes England section of GOV.UK, but can be provided on request (see section 6 for contact details).

2.10 MHCLG has combined the affordable housing statistics in this release with the GLA’s affordable housing statistics to produce Table 1012 showing total affordable housing starts on site and completions delivered nationally under the affordable housing programmes of Homes England and the GLA^{[footnote 12]}. From 2019 to 2020 onwards, Table 1012 includes units delivered by the GLA funded via the Right to Buy ringfence offer which are not included in their quarterly management information. Therefore there will be some discrepancies between the total in this table and the GLA’s own tables. This table excludes additional affordable housing delivery reported annually through local authority returns, which are included in MHCLG’s full annual release on affordable housing supply in England^{[footnote 13]}. The table includes any revisions made to London data since it was published by Homes England on 12 June 2012 (revised 24 August 2012).  Further details are provided in section 6 of the technical notes.

3. Housing outputs

This section provides the detailed statistics for housing starts and completions by tenure. It includes all Homes England programmes and analyses them over time ^{[footnote 14]}.

Data for the current and two previous years should be considered as provisional since they are subject to revisions as set out in section 4 of the technical notes accompanying this release.

Starts on site

Table 1a: Housing starts on site by tenure, England (excluding non-Homes England London delivery) ^{[footnote 15] [footnote 16]}

Financial Year [footnote 17]	Period	Affordable Rent	Social Rent	Intermediate Affordable Housing - Intermediate Rent	Intermediate Affordable Housing - Affordable Home Ownership	Affordable Tenure TBC [footnote 18]	Total Affordable Housing Starts [footnote 19]	Market [footnote 20]	Total Housing Starts
2024 to 2025	Apr to Sep	1,098	2,002	90	1,336	8,547	13,073	2,609	15,682
2023 to 2024	Apr to Sep	1,053	807	22	1,144	8,598	11,624	1,599	13,223
2023 to 2024	Oct to Mar	1,611	3,026	163	2,224	10,419	17,443	5,010	22,453
2023 to 2024	Full year	2,664	3,833	185	3,368	19,017	29,067	6,609	35,676
2022 to 2023	Apr to Sep	2,195	795	237	1,561	6,221	11,009	3,771	14,780
2022 to 2023	Oct to Mar	3,026	1,545	134	2,363	11,135	18,203	4,116	22,319
2022 to 2023	Full year	5,221	2,340	371	3,924	17,356	29,212	7,887	37,099
2021 to 2022	Apr to Sep	1,770	791	118	1,293	7,701	11,673	4,384	16,057
2021 to 2022	Oct to Mar	3,858	1,062	257	2,959	7,341	15,477	6,538	22,015
2021 to 2022	Full year	5,628	1,853	375	4,252	15,042	27,150	10,992	38,072
2020 to 2021	Apr to Sep	3,254	486	262	2,551	3,380	9,933	2,691	12,624
2020 to 2021	Oct to Mar	6,740	1,986	270	3,862	4,184	17,042	6,577	23,619
2020 to 2021	Full year	9,994	2,472	532	6,413	7,564	26,975	9,268	36,243
2019 to 2020	Apr to Sep	5,183	844	57	4,071	2,895	13,050	4,777	17,827
2019 to 2020	Oct to Mar	11,092	1,926	95	6,918	1,843	21,874	7,081	28,955
2019 to 2020	Full year	16,275	2,770	152	10,989	4,738	34,924	11,858	46,782
2018 to 2019	Apr to Sep	5,488	455	156	3,224	..	9,323	6,230	15,553
2018 to 2019	Oct to Mar	11,762	877	158	7,454	..	20,251	9,102	29,353
2018 to 2019	Full year	17,250	1,332	314	10,678	..	29,574	15,332	44,096
2017 to 2018	Apr to Sep	4,531	305	8	2,117	..	6,961	6,501	13,462
2017 to 2018	Oct to Mar	12,346	1,388	108	6673	..	20,515	7,616	28,131
2017 to 2018	Full year	16,877	1,693	116	8,790	..	27,476	14,117	41,593

’..’ denotes not applicable ^{[footnote 21]}

Chart 1a: Housing starts on site.

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Chart 1b: Affordable Housing starts on site.

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In the period 1 April 2024 to 30 September 2024

Financial year 2024 to 2025, with comparisons to 2023 to 2024:

3.1 A total of 15,682 homes started on site, representing an increase of 2,459 or 19% compared to 13,223.

3.2 13,073 or 83% of housing starts on site were for affordable homes — an increase of 1,449 or 12% compared to 11,624.

3.3 8,547 (65%) of affordable homes started with tenure to be confirmed, a decrease of 51 or 0.6% on 8,598. All ‘tenure to be confirmed’ starts originate from Strategic Partnerships (SP) where providers are not contractually required to identify the tenure of a unit until completion. The tenure for these units will not be known until completion and they will be restated under their appropriate tenure in future releases. 

3.4 A further 2,002 (15%) of affordable homes started were for Social Rent, an increase of 1,195 or 148% on 807. 1,462 (11%) were for Intermediate Affordable Housing schemes, including Shared Ownership and Rent to Buy. This is an increase of 260 or 22% on 1,166. The remaining 1,098 (8%) of affordable homes started were for Affordable Rent, an increase of 45 or 4% on 1,053.

3.5 Table 1b shows the percentage of Homes England’s affordable housing starts on site delivered by each region^{[footnote 22]} compared to the same period last year, ranked highest to lowest. A map showing the region boundaries is available at Annex 2.

Table 1b: Affordable Housing starts on site — percentage delivery by region

	2023 to 2024	2022 to 2023
North West	18%	20%
South East	18%	17%
South West	15%	15%
East of England	12%	13%
East Midlands	11%	12%
West Midlands	10%	9%
Yorkshire and The Humber	8%	9%
North East	8%	4%
London	0%	0%

3.6 The number of market starts on site increased by 1,010 (63%) from 1,599 to 2,609. Of the market starts delivered^{[footnote 23]}:

• the SLP accounted for the majority at 1,088 or 42%
• the LU-HBF delivered 1,001 or 38%
• Local Authority Accelerated Construction (LAAC) delivered 41 or 2%
• the remaining 479 or 18% were delivered by the HBF-STF

The latter two programmes are closed to new business.

Completions (excluding Help to Buy):

Table 2a: Housing completions by tenure, England (excluding Help to Buy and non-Homes England London delivery) ^{[footnote 24][footnote 25]}

Financial Year	Period	Affordable Rent	Social Rent	Intermediate Affordable Housing - Intermediate Rent	Intermediate Affordable Housing - Affordable Home Ownership	First Homes	Total Affordable Housing Completions [footnote 26]	Market [footnote 27][footnote 28]	Total Housing Completions
2024 to 2025	Apr to Sep	3,381	1,991	100	4,962	0	10,434	3,861	14,295
2023 to 2024	Apr to Sep	3,110	1,218	140	2,966	495	7,929	3,789	11,718
2023 to 2024	Oct to Mar	6,292	3,128	320	7,108	21	16,869	4,247	21,116
2023 to 2024	Full year	9,402	4,346	460	10,074	516	24,798	8,036	32,834
2022 to 2023	Apr to Sep	3,677	1,129	93	2,968	40	7,907	4,478	12,385
2022 to 2023	Oct to Mar	6,585	2,601	161	6,136	687	16,170	5,381	21,551
2022 to 2023	Full year	10,262	3,730	254	9,104	727	24,077	9,859	33,936
2021 to 2022	Apr to Sep	5,353	1,185	65	3,492	..	10,095	4,323	14,418
2021 to 2022	Oct to Mar	8,596	1,923	125	5,768	32	16,444	6,374	22,818
2021 to 2022	Full year	13,949	3,108	190	9,260	32	26,539	10,697	37,236
2020 to 2021	Apr to Sep	4,315	700	25	3,043	..	8,083	3,960	12,043
2020 to 2021	Oct to Mar	8,991	1,196	61	5,626	..	15,874	7,071	22,945
2020 to 2021	Full year	13,306	1,896	86	8,669	..	23,957	11,031	34,988
2019 to 2020	Apr to Sep	6,405	556	20	3,362	..	10,343	4,713	15,056
2019 to 2020	Oct to Mar	10,458	918	97	6,397	..	17,870	7,577	25,447
2019 to 2020	Full year	16,863	1,474	117	9,759	..	28,213	12,290	40,503
2018 to 2019	Apr to Sep	7,912	326	3	2,824	..	11,065	4,752	15,817
2018 to 2019	Oct to Mar	10,977	668	42	5,964	..	17,651	6,618	24,269
2018 to 2019	Full year	18,889	994	45	8,788	..	28,716	11,370	40,086
2017 to 2018	Apr to Sep	7,219	174	0	1,900	..	9,293	2,723	12,016
2017 to 2018	Oct to Mar	12,544	859	34	3,132	..	16,569	5,321	21,890
2017 to 2018	Full year	19,763	1,033	34	5,032	..	25,862	8,044	33,096

Chart 2a: Housing completions (excluding Help to Buy)

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Chart 2b: Affordable Housing completions

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In the period 1 April 2024 to 30 September 2024

Financial year 2024 to 2025, with comparisons to 2023 to 2024:

3.7 14,295 homes were completed, an increase of 2,577 or 22% compared to 11,718.

3.8 10,434 (73%) of total completions were affordable homes, an increase of 2,505 or 32% compared to 7,929.

3.9 5,062 (49%) of affordable completions were for Intermediate Affordable Housing schemes, including Shared Ownership and Rent to Buy. This is an increase of 1,956 or 63% compared to 3,106. Affordable Rent accounted for a further 3,381 (32%), an increase of 271 or 9% compared to 3,110. 1,991 (19%) of affordable homes completed were for Social Rent, an increase of 773 or 63% compared to 1,218.

3.10 Table 2b shows the percentage of Homes England’s affordable housing completions delivered by each region compared to last year^{[footnote 29]}, ranked highest to lowest.

Table 2b:  Affordable housing completions — percentage delivery by region

	2023 to 2024	2022 to 2023
North West	21%	22%
South East	12%	17%
Yorkshire and The Humber	10%	13%
West Midlands	9%	11%
East of England	15%	11%
East Midlands	11%	10%
South West	13%	8%
North East	8%	7%
London	1%	1%

3.11 3,861 market homes completed, an increase of 72 or 2% compared to 3,789. The top delivering programmes of market completions were:

• the HBF-STF with 1,722 or 45%
• SLP with 1,620 or 42%
• LU-HBF with 445 or 12%
• LAAC with 72 or 2%

4. Accompanying tables

4.1 The tables accompanying this release are available to download from the housing statistics page on the Homes England section of GOV.UK^{[footnote 30]} and include the following:

Table 1

Housing starts on site and completions by programme and tenure for:

1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 with half year analysis

1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 with half year analysis

1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 with half year analysis

1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 with half year analysis

1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 with half year analysis

1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 with half year analysis

1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 with half year analysis

1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 with half year analysis

1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 with half year analysis

1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015 with half year analysis

1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 with half year analysis

1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013 with half year analysis

1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012 with half year analysis

1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011 with half year analysis

1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010 with half year analysis

Table 2

Housing starts on site and completions by local authority district and tenure (all programmes except Help to Buy), 1 April 2024 to 30 September 2024.

4.2 Housing starts on site and completions by local authority district and tenure (all programmes except Help to Buy) for historical periods are available to download from the Homes England housing statistics webpage^{[footnote 31]}.

4.3 In a small number of cases, Homes England funding to an affordable housing provider may be to support a person or family to be housed in a local authority that is different to the one in which they currently reside. The local authority presentations in Table 2 are based on the local authority district in which the house is located. These tables also identify the region in which each local authority is located.

4.4 We can provide programme level statistics for specified local authority areas in response to requests made to [email protected].

5. Other information

Pre-release access

5.1 Details of officials who receive pre-release access to the release up to 24 hours before publication are available from the housing statistics page on the Homes England section of GOV.UK^{[footnote 32]}.

A brief history of Homes England

5.2 Homes England was launched by the Secretary of State on 11 January 2018. Homes England is the trading name of Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) (the legal entity). The HCA was created on 1 December 2008 by bringing together the regeneration body English Partnerships (including the Property and Regeneration programme), the investment arm of the Housing Corporation (including the National Affordable Housing Programme), the Academy for Sustainable Communities and a number of housing and regeneration programmes from MHCLG (then known as the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). In October 2011, the HCA took responsibility for the land and property assets of 8 of England’s 9 Regional Development Agencies, ahead of their operational closure in March 2012. On 1 April 2012, the HCA’s former London operating area transferred to the GLA.

Future publication dates

5.3 Our official statistics for the period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 will be published in June or July 2025.

Responsible statistician

5.4 The responsible statistician for this statistical release is Mike Shone.

6. User consultation

6.1 Users’ comments on any issues relating to this statistical release are welcomed and encouraged. Responses should be sent to the ‘statistical enquiries’ address given: 

Enquiries

Media enquiries

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 020 7874 8262

Statistical enquiries

Mike Shone

Email: [email protected] 

Tel: 01234 242537

7. Technical notes

Read the accompanying technical notes document for further information. This can be found on the Homes England housing statistics page for 1 April 2024 to 30 September 2024:  www.gov.uk/government/statistics/housing-statistics-1-april-2024-to-30-september-2024

Annex 1

Homes England’s programmes

The following table and links provide information about Homes England’s programmes (current and historical), which are funded by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) with the exception of Care and Support Specialised Housing, Homelessness Change 2015 to 2018 and Platform for Life, which were funded by the Department of Health:

Programme	Programme Summary	Tenure [footnote 33]	Build Type [footnote 34]
Accelerated Land Disposal	The Accelerated Land Disposal programme was announced in the Budget 2011 to support the additional or accelerated delivery of 3,000 housing starts on site by 31 March 2015. With effect from 1 April 2015, existing commitments transferred to the Single Land Programme.	Social Rent, AHO, Market	NB
Affordable Homes Guarantees	On 6 September 2012, the government announced its proposal to guarantee up to £10 billion of debt to help housing providers expand the provision of both purpose built private rented and affordable housing. As well as the Guarantee for the Affordable Homes element, the government confirmed that it would make £225 million of funding available for new affordable housing, for use where needed alongside the Affordable Homes Guarantee. This funding was then doubled in the 2013 Budget to £450 million, including London, to support up to 30,000 new affordable homes.	Aff. Rent, Social Rent, AHO	NB, A
Affordable Homes Programme [footnote 35]	The Affordable Homes Programme was announced as part of the government’s Spending Review 2010 and delivered over 58,000 (excluding London) new affordable homes by 31 March 2015, with rents set at up to 80% of market rent.	Aff. Rent, Social Rent, AHO	NB, A
Affordable Homes Programme 2015 to 2018	The Affordable Homes Programme 2015 to 2018 replaced the Affordable Homes Programme 2011 to 2015 and aims to increase the supply of new affordable homes in England by March 2018. It is now closed although commitments agreed under this programme will be delivered during the 2016 to 2021 period.	Aff. Rent, Social Rent, AHO (Shared Ownership)	NB, A
Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026	The Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026 is replacing the Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016 to 2021 with the aim to increase the supply of new affordable homes in England by March 2026.	Aff. Rent, Social Rent, AHO (Shared Ownership)	NB, A
Build to Rent	The Build to Rent Fund was launched in December 2012 in response to the recommendations of the Montague report to stimulate new private rented housing supply and to provide opportunities for new institutional investment in the sector. It will support the delivery of up to 10,000 new homes.	Market	NB
Builders Finance Fund	The £525 million Builders Finance Fund is designed to help restart and speed up housing developments between 5 and 250 units that have slowed down or stalled. Its main objective is to address difficulties in accessing development finance faced by some house builders, particularly smaller developers, and to help bring forward stalled but viable sites.  With effect from October 2016, existing commitments transferred to the Home Building fund – Short Term Fund.	Social Rent, Int. Rent, AHO, Market	NB, A
Care and Support Specialised Housing Fund	The Department of Health’s Care and Support Specialised Housing Fund (CASSH) provides funding for housing for older people and adults with disabilities (physical or sensory disabilities, mental health needs and learning disabilities and autism). The fund is spilt into two phases. Phase 1 was launched in October 2012 and phase 2 was launched in February 2015. The initial budget for the programme was £160 million over five years (2013 to 2014 through to 2017 to 2018) outside London. In 2013, this was increased by a further £80 million and the delivery time frame extended to 2020 to 2021.	Aff. Rent, Social Rent, AHO (Shared Ownership)	NB, A
Economic Assets	The Economic Assets programme was announced in the Budget 2011 and worked with partners to ensure the effective use and disposal of more than 300 land and property assets transferred from the former Regional Development Agencies.  With effect from 1 April 2015, existing commitments transferred to the Single Land Programme.	Social Rent, Int. Rent, AHO, Market	NB, A
Empty Homes [footnote 35]	The Empty Homes programme was announced as part of the government’s Spending Review 2010 to bring back into use empty residential properties (in private ownership) as affordable housing. The programme delivered 2,759 homes by 30 September 2016 outside London.	Aff. Rent, Social Rent, AHO	A
Empty Homes Round 2	In November 2012 a second round of funding was launched to bring back into use empty properties as affordable housing. As well as residential properties (in private ownership), the programme had an emphasis on the refurbishment of empty commercial and non-residential properties. The programme delivered 868 homes by 31 March 2017 outside London.	Aff. Rent, Social Rent, AHO	A
FirstBuy	The FirstBuy scheme was announced in the Budget 2011 to help support 10,000 first time buyers on the property ladder. The scheme was expanded in September 2012 and from 1 April 2013 was replaced with Help to Buy.	AHO	NB
First Homes	First Homes are the government’s preferred discounted market tenure and should account for at least 25% of all affordable housing units delivered by developers through planning obligations.	AHO	NB
Get Britain Building	The Get Britain Building programme was set up to unlock more than 12,000 homes on stalled sites with planning permission through access to development finance.	Social Rent, Int. Rent, AHO, Market	NB
Help to Buy (equity loan)	Help to Buy was announced in the Budget 2013 to help purchasers struggling to buy a new build home. It offers a maximum 20% (40% in London) equity loan (minimum 10%) on new build properties up to a maximum purchase price of £600,000. Launched in April 2013 with an initial budget of £3.7 billion, the programme aspired to support 74,000 plus homebuyers in the first 3 years. The 2015 Spending Review confirmed £8.6 billion of funding and extended the programme to 2021 to assist an anticipated 145,000 purchases. In October 2017, the government announced it will invest a further £10 billion in the Help to Buy Equity Loan programme. More than 330,000 completions were achieved by the end of the programme, which helped people buy a new build home with only a 5% deposit.	Market	NB
Help to Buy: Equity Loan (2021 to 2023)	Help to Buy: Equity Loan (2021 to 2023) is for first-time buyers and includes regional property price limits to ensure the scheme reaches people who need it most. As with the previous scheme, the government provided lending to homebuyers of between 5% and 20% of the cost of a newly built home, and up to 40% in London. Help to Buy: Equity Loan (2021 to 2023) is now closed to new applications.	Market	NB
Homelessness Change [footnote 35]	The Homelessness Change Programme was announced as part of the government’s Spending Review 2010 and delivered 1,128 new or refurbished bed spaces in hostel accommodation by 31 March 2015 (outside London).	Aff. Rent	NB, A
Homelessness Change 2015 to 2018	Homes England is allocating a share of up to £25 million capital funding for specialist housing providers, on behalf of the Department of Health, to bring forward proposals for developing and improving hostel accommodation and facilities for the delivery of healthcare, training or education aimed at supporting rough sleepers, those at risk of sleeping rough, and other non-statutory homeless people of specialist housing to meet the needs of older people and adults with disabilities or mental health problems outside of London. This programme was launched jointly alongside the Platform for Life fund in March 2015.	Aff. Rent	NB, A
Kickstart Housing Delivery	The Kickstart Housing Delivery programme was part of the 2009 Housing Stimulus Programme investing in restarting more than 20,000 homes on stalled sites.  The programme closed on 31 March 2013.	Social Rent Int. Rent, AHO, Market	NB
Levelling Up – Home Building Fund	The Levelling Up – Home Building Fund offers finance from £250,000. Smaller loans for innovative housing solutions will also be considered.	Aff. Rent, Social Rent, Int. Rent, AHO, Market	NB
Local Authority Accelerated Construction	Through our new Accelerated Construction programme we want to provide a tailored package of support to ambitious local authorities who would like to develop out surplus land holdings at pace. There is no single approach to accelerated construction that we expect to support. Our intention is to support a range of proposals at different scales and in locations where there is sufficient demand for housing.	Aff. Rent, Social Rent, Int. Rent AHO , Market	NB
Local Authority New Build	The Local Authority New Build programme was set up to deliver 4,000 homes for rent by 31 March 2012.	Social Rent	NB
Mortgage Rescue [footnote 35]	The Mortgage Rescue scheme was announced as part of the government’s Spending Review 2010 to provide support to some 2,500 vulnerable home owners struggling to maintain mortgage payments and at risk of repossession.  This scheme is now closed.	AHO, Int. Rent	A
National Affordable Housing Programme	The National Affordable Housing Programme is the predecessor to the AHP 2011 to 2015.	Social Rent, Int. Rent, AHO	NB, A
Platform for Life	Homes England is allocating a share of up to £25 million capital funding for specialist housing providers, on behalf of the Department of Health, to bring forward proposals for developing low-rent accommodation for young people aged 18 to 24 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and are in housing need, to support their participation in work, further education or vocational training, with the aim of assisting residents into long term employment and independence, and improving their prospects for a successful and healthy life. This programme was launched jointly alongside the Homelessness Change 2015 to 2017 fund in March 2015.	Aff. Rent	NB, A
Property and Regeneration Programme	The Property and Regeneration programme covered all the historical property and regeneration investments and assets inherited from English Partnerships.  With effect from 1 April 2015, existing commitments transferred to the Single Land Programme.	Social Rent, Int. Rent, AHO, Market	NB, A
Rent to Buy	The Rent to Buy Loan 2015 to 2017 provided loans at a low, fixed rate to registered providers to deliver homes outside London. The homes will be let at a sub-market rent for at least 7 years with the intention of supporting working households to save money and achieve their aspiration of home ownership. This programme is now closed.	AHO	NB
Right to Buy Replacement	With effect from 2 April 2012, every additional local authority home sold under Right to Buy will be replaced by a new home for affordable rent, with receipts from sales recycled towards the cost of replacement. Where a local authority decides not to undertake the development themselves, they return the relevant portion of the receipts to MHCLG for re-investment nationally.	Aff. Rent	NB
Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016 to 2021	This programme aims to increase the supply of Shared Ownership and other affordable homes in England.	Aff. Rent, Social Rent, AHO (Shared Ownership and Rent to Buy)	NB, A
Short Form Agreement [footnote 35]	A Short Form Agreement (SFA) is used by Homes England to contract with providers who wish to deliver Affordable Rent units without Homes England funding.	Aff. Rent	NB, A
Single Land Programme	The Single Land Programme, with effect from 1 April 2015, consists of existing commitments taken from the amalgamation of historical Homes England land programmes (Accelerated Land Disposal, Economic Assets and Property and Regeneration) and transferred sites from across government under the Public Sector Land Transfer model. It is a self-financing programme funded through the recycling of receipts supporting government’s targets on housing (including starter homes), public sector land release and asset disposals.	Aff. Rent, Social Rent, Int. Rent AHO, Market	NB, A
The Home Building Fund – Short Term Fund	The Home Building Fund is government finance to increase the number of new homes being built in England. Applications are being accepted from private sector businesses to build new homes or prepare sites for development.	Aff. Rent, Social Rent, Int. Rent, AHO, Market	NB, A
Traveller Pitch Funding [footnote 35]	The Traveller Pitch Funding programme was announced as part of the government’s Spending Review 2010 and delivered 515 new traveller pitches by 31 March 2015 (outside London). In addition, 386 refurbished pitches were delivered.	Aff. Rent, AHO	NB, A

Annex 2

England – Regions (former government offices for the regions (GOR))

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1. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/help-to-buy-equity-loan-and-newbuy-statistics ↩

2. Affordable Tenure TBC refers to units that have reached the start on site milestone but where the tenure of these units has not yet been specified.  This was introduced as a flexibility for Strategic Partnerships to enable them to determine tenure close to or at the point of completion. These starts will be restated under their specified tenure headings in future national statistics updates once the tenure has been established at completion. ↩

3. As housing starts on site and completions are recorded by their geographical location, this release may exclude homes located outside London where the funding was allocated to a local authority district within London.  ↩

4. See Annex 1 for a summary and links to information about Homes England’s programmes. ↩

5. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/help-to-buy-equity-loan-and-newbuy-statistics ↩

6. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-statistics ↩

7. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/affordable-housing-supply ↩

8. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/homes-england-strategic-plan-2023-to-2028 ↩

9. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-statistics ↩

10. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/affordable-housing-supply ↩

11. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/homes-england-framework-document ↩

12. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply  ↩

13. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/affordable-housing-supply ↩

14. Some of the tables and charts in this release have been restricted to an eight-year rolling profile to avoid overcrowding pages with excessively long graphics. For earlier years (going back to 2009 to 2010) please see the accompanying tables and previous releases available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-statistics. ↩

15. Since April 2012, the Mayor of London has had oversight of strategic housing, regeneration and economic development in London. This means that Homes England no longer publishes housing starts on site and completions for London (current and historical series) except for delivery in London under the BtR, BFF, GBB, HBF-STF and LU-HBF programmes which are administered by Homes England on behalf of the GLA. ↩

16. Figures by local authority and region are available in the accompanying tables. ↩

17. To ensure consistent reporting with completions, with effect from 1 April 2014 the range of products reported for affordable housing starts on site includes the start on site for new build homes where the procurement route is such that the provider purchases the home at completion (known as Off The Shelf (OTS) units). For reporting purposes, the start on site date is taken as the date of completion. An exception to this is under the AHP 2021-26 Strategic Partnerships where OTS starts are also counted upon exchange of purchase contract, which may be prior to completion of the build. ↩

18. Tenure will be determined on completion of the unit and will be restated in future releases under its appropriate tenure. ↩

19. Total affordable housing is the sum of Affordable Rent, Social Rent, Intermediate Rent, Affordable Home Ownership, First Homes (for completions only) and Affordable Tenure TBC (for starts only). ↩

20. The market units delivered under the Accelerated Land Disposal, BtR, BFF, Economic Assets, GBB, Kickstart Housing Delivery, LU-HBF, Local Authority Accelerated Construction (LAAC), Property and Regeneration, SLP and the HBF-STF programmes may include some starts on site and completions which are made available at below market price or rents but do not meet the definition for affordable housing. ↩

21. In the table, use of ‘..’ denotes not applicable. ↩

22. https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/administrativegeography/england#regions-former-gors ↩

23. Note that proportions do not sum to 100% due to rounding. ↩

24. Since April 2012, the Mayor of London has had oversight of strategic housing, regeneration and economic development in London. This means that Homes England no longer publishes housing starts on site and completions for London (current and historical series) except for delivery in London under the BtR, BFF, GBB, HBF-STF and LU-HBF programmes which are administered by Homes England on behalf of the GLA. ↩

25. Figures by local authority and region are available in the accompanying tables. ↩

26. Total affordable housing is the sum of Affordable Rent, Social Rent, Intermediate Rent, Affordable Home Ownership, First Homes (for completions only) and Affordable Tenure TBC (for starts only). ↩

27. The market units delivered under the Accelerated Land Disposal, BtR, BFF, Economic Assets, GBB, Kickstart Housing Delivery, LU-HBF, Local Authority Accelerated Construction (LAAC), Property and Regeneration, SLP and the HBF-STF programmes may include some starts on site and completions which are made available at below market price or rents but do not meet the definition for affordable housing. ↩

28. Some of the market completions delivered since 2013-14 may include houses sold to purchasers who have received assistance through the Help to Buy scheme to buy a property at market value from a house builder where the scheme as a whole may have benefitted from funding through another programme. Help to Buy is reported by MHCLG. Read https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/help-to-buy-equity-loan-and-newbuy-statistics ↩

29. Note that proportions do not sum to 100% due to rounding. ↩

30. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-statistics ↩

31. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-statistics ↩

32. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-statistics ↩

33. Tenure indicates whether units delivered under each programme are allocated to Affordable Rent (Aff. Rent), Social Rent (Social Rent), Intermediate Rent (Int. Rent), Affordable Home Ownership (AHO), including Shared Ownership and Rent to Buy, or Open Market (Market). ↩

34. New supply is either a new build (NB) or an acquisition (A) from existing non-affordable stock. Grant under some programmes can be used to deliver either newly built units or to fund acquisitions. ↩

35. The programme was part of the Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) 2011 to 2015. The majority of delivery through the AHP 2011 to 2015 and other associated programmes was made available as Affordable Rent with some Affordable Home Ownership and, in some limited circumstances, Social Rent. Intermediate Rent was not delivered by the AHP 2011 to 2015 unless it was through Mortgage Rescue or pre-existing commitments from the National Affordable Housing Programme. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶