Right To Buy Directly Increases Affordable Housing Supply, Claims Pincher

The Right to Buy directly boosts affordable housing supply, housing minister Christopher Pincher has said amid multiple questionable claims made to a committee of MPs. Appearing before the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee, the minister argued that the 120,000 council homes sold off through the policy “in recent years” have been replaced by 140,000 new builds. Pressed by the committee, he admitted the 140,000 figure represents all affordable homes completed rather than just council homes for social rent. But Mr Pincher maintained that the numbers represent “a one-for-one relationship” and that the Right to Buy “is increasing the housing stock”. Read more on Inside Housing.

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Affordable Housing – Parliamentary Written Answer

Dr Rupa Huq: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many affordable houses have been built in the UK in the last 12 months.

Kit Malthouse: In 2017-18 47,355 affordable homes were completed, an increase of 12 per cent on the previous year, of these over 7,100 (15 per cent) were in London. Details for homes delivered in 2018 -19 will be published in the Departments annual Affordable Housing Supply statistics.

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-06-06/261275