Affordable housing

Housing that is available for purchase or rent at/below the local property market average. It is often administered by housing associations and local authorities can suggest preferred candidates, who are usually on low incomes and are unable to compete in the open property market.

Further information

The Housing Green Paper, Homes for the future: more affordable, more sustainable, sought views on the Government's proposals to: increase the supply of housing; provide well designed and greener homes that are supported by infrastructure; and to provide more affordable homes to buy or rent.

The aim of Delivering Affordable Housing is to support local authorities and other key players in delivering more high quality affordable housing within mixed sustainable communities by using all tools available to them. It outlines the affordable housing challenge that needs to be met, and provides information on how existing delivery mechanisms operate to help in delivery.

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