Location of Housing Delivery

• No target identified.

• Renewing the Affordable Homes Programme that will deliver homes of all tenures and focus on regenerating and improving housing estates.
• Boost the availability of affordable housing for local people in rural areas.
• Legislate for new ‘Local Connection’ and ‘UK Connection’ tests for social housing.

CONSERVATIVES

• No target identified but commits to “deliver the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation”.
• Strengthen planning obligations for new developments to provide more affordable homes.
• Support councils and housing associations to build affordable housing supply capacity and make changes to the Affordable Homes Programme to ensure that it delivers more homes from existing funding.

LABOUR

• Target – 150,000 social homes a year.
• Introduce ‘Rent to Own’ model for social housing.
• Use financial incentives for the delivery of social housing on brownfield sites.

LIB DEMS

• Target – 150,000 social homes a year.
• To be delivered through a community right to buy for local authorities and ending the individual ‘right to buy’ to keep social homes for local communities in perpetuity.

GREEN PARTY

• No target identified.
• Reform social housing law, prioritising “local people and those who have paid into the system” – “affordable homes for hard-working British people.”

REFORM UK