Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities written question – answered at on 3 May 2024.
Gen Kitchen
Labour, Wellingborough
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an estimate of the average increase in rent for private properties in Wellingborough Constituency in the last 12 months; and what assessment he has made of the affordability of rent increases for people on average earnings in Wellingborough constituency.
Gen Kitchen
Labour, Wellingborough
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an estimate of the number of unoccupied dwellings in (a) Northamptonshire and (b) Wellingborough Constituency.
Gen Kitchen
Labour, Wellingborough
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has taken recent steps to increase the construction of (a) social housing and (b) affordable homes in Wellingborough Constituency.
Jacob Young
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The ONS publishes both rental price and rental affordability indexes at local authority and regional levels respectively, and the department publishes data on the number of unoccupied dwellings, as defined for council tax purposes, at local authority level. Data is not available at parliamentary Constituency level.
The provision of affordable housing is part of the Government's plan to build more homes and provide aspiring homeowners with a step onto the housing ladder. Our £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme will deliver thousands of affordable homes for both rent and to buy right across the country. The Levelling Up white paper committed to increasing the supply of social rented homes and a large number of the new homes delivered through our Affordable Homes Programme will be for social rent.
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