Rachel Maclean: The Government remains committed to the Right to Buy, which since 1980â¯has enabled over two million social housing tenants to become homeowners.
Rachel Maclean: ...rent is likely to be a tenant's biggest monthly expense. Individuals who need help towards their rental payments may be eligible for a range of support through the welfare system. The English Housing Survey 2021-22 found that 3% of private renters were in arrears and 4% of social renters were in arrears at the time of interview (Apr 21 - Mar 22). These levels are similar to those the year...
Rachel Maclean: The Local Housing Allowance's rates are set for each Broad Rental Market Area (BRMA). These areas can encompass more than one local authority, and local authorities can also be split between two BRMAs. As a result, we cannot provide this information at the local authority level.
Rachel Maclean: The Government provides landlords with funding for new supply of affordable housing, including for regeneration schemes where that investment delivers net additional housing. However, we generally expect landlords to fund repairs and other regeneration themselves from the income they get from rents and their own market activities.
Rachel Maclean: ...strategic barriers to further modern methods of construction growth in order to deliver more high quality new-build homes more quickly. The Government has no plans for a specific grant for Airey houses.
Rachel Maclean: As part of a fair and just housing system, the Government is committed to making sure that homeowners and tenants are protected from abuse and poor service. This commitment includes raising professionalism and standards amongst property agents (letting, estate and managing agents), protecting consumers while defending the reputation of good agents from the actions of rogue operatives. We...
Rachel Maclean: This Government is committed to accelerating housing delivery to make home buying a reality for a new generation. We want decisions about homes to be driven locally and we want to get more local plans in place to deliver the homes we need. That is why we remain committed to a 300k target. I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the impact assessment for the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill here. The...
Rachel Maclean: This Government will continue to invest in the supply of affordable housing. Our £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme will deliver tens of thousands of affordable homes for both rent and sale, in communities up and down the country.
Rachel Maclean: ...already makes clear that planning policies and decisions should be responsive to local circumstances in rural areas. Our Rural Exception Sites policy allows for the development of small affordable housing sites in rural areas, with the majority of housing on these sites being available to local people in perpetuity, and we published planning practice guidance in 2020 to help local...
Rachel Maclean: This Government is committed to the continued provision of affordable housing, which is why we are investing £11.5 billion through our Affordable Homes Programme to deliver tens of thousands of homes across the country. The department's Levelling-up White Paper outlined our intention to increase the volume of Social Rented accommodation, and the Affordable Homes Programme will respond to...
Rachel Maclean: This Government is committed to accelerating housing delivery to make home buying a reality for a new generation. We want decisions about homes to be driven locally and we want to get more local plans in place to deliver the homes we need. That is why we remain committed to a 300k target and to retaining a clear starting point for calculating local housing needs, and we know the best way to...
Rachel Maclean: The department does not hold official statistics on this but the 'English Housing Survey Older people's housing 2020-21' includes data on households headed by an older person aged 65 and over. Announcements will be made in the usual way.
Rachel Maclean: ..., over 822,000 households have been helped to purchase a home through Government-backed schemes including Help to Buy and Right to Buy. We are committed to increasing the supply of affordable housing which is why, through our £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme, we will deliver tens of thousands of affordable homes for both sale and rent, right across the country.
Rachel Maclean: ...Act, it cannot be for more than one peppercorn per year. We understand that some leaseholders have suffered as a result of high and escalating ground rents. Unfair practices have no place in the housing market and the Government is committed to ending them. We want to see homeowners who have been affected obtain the justice and redress they deserve. This is why we asked the Competition and...
Rachel Maclean: The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities collects and publishes data on delivery of affordable homes in populations of less than 3,000 people. These data are available in Section I of the Local Authority Housing Statistics dataset, as well as in the accompanying open data. For the years 2011-12 onwards, these data can be broken down by new build and acquisitions.
Rachel Maclean: The Government is committed to creating a fairer and more transparent housing system that works for everyone. Leasehold reform supports our mission to level up homeownership by addressing the power imbalance at the heart of the leasehold system. In 2017 the Government asked the Law Commission to review existing leasehold legislation. The Law Commission's findings, published in 2020, made...
Rachel Maclean: Information on new affordable housing, broken down by tenure and new build/acquisition, can be easily found in Live Table 1009, here.
Rachel Maclean: ...that planning is a local matter and it is for each local planning authority to assess how it will deliver the Government's environmental goals, alongside our ambition to deliver the identified housing needs of their communities. As we have set out previously, we of course welcome action by individual developers who wish to provide swift bricks and the benefits are set out in our Planning...
Rachel Maclean: Where co-operatives provide social housing, they may register with the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) and then they must comply with the regulatory standards set by the RSH.
Rachel Maclean: I thank the hon. Member for bringing this issue to the Floor of the House on behalf of his constituents and communities. We are looking at the issue of registration of second homes through the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill and other frameworks. We understand that, naturally, people want to go on holiday to beautiful areas, but there is an impact on communities. We need the registration...
