A commonly accepted threshold for affordable housing costs at the household level is 30% of a household's income. Accordingly, a household is considered cost burdened if it pays more than 30% of its income on housing. Households paying more than 50% are considered severely cost burdened. These thresholds apply to both homeowners and renters.

The Housing Affordability indicator only measures cost burden among the region's households, and not the supply of affordable housing. The directionality of cost burden trends can be impacted by changes in both income and housing supply. If lower income households are priced out of a county or the region, it would create a downward trend in cost burden, but would not reflect a positive trend for an inclusive housing market.

There are a large number of Housing spreadsheets that provide the latest, most useful or most popular data, presented by type and other variables, including by geographical area or on a temporal basis. These spreadsheets are mostely produced from statistical returns completed by Local Authorities, although some are from survey data or external sources. The statistical returns could in the future be made available in a database if permitted by Statistical Legislation

Number of affordable housing starts (seasonally adjusted)

How the figure is calculated:

Total reported numbers of starts under the relevant programmes within the reporting period. Because delivery is seasonal and reflects funding profiles, with more starts and completions being reported in the second six months than are reported in the first six months, the current figures are compared back to the equivalent period of the year before rather than the preceding six months.

Why is this indicator in the business plan?

These are the most timely indicators on affordable housing delivery. Increasing the supply of affordable housing is a key part of DCLG policy.

How often is it updated?

Bi-annually, approximately June and November.

Where does the data come from?

Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) - Investment Management System and other programme information. Published figures are at http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/housing-statistics.

Greater London Authority (GLA) - Investment Management System and other programme information. Published figures are at http://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/housing-land/increasing-housing-supply/gla-affordable-housing-statistics.

What area does the headline figure cover?

England

Are further breakdowns of the data available?

Yes, can be split by type (social rent, affordable rent, intermediate rent, Low Cost Home Ownership) and by local authority area.

What does a change in this indicator show?

An increase in this indicator is good and shows more new affordable houses are being started through the HCA and GLA.

Time Lag

Published within two months of the end of the reporting period.

Next available update

June 2015.

Type of Data

Official Statistics.

Robustness and data limitations

• Does not include all affordable housing starts and completions because some will be delivered outside the HCA and GLA roles.
• Delivery is seasonal and reflects funding profiles. Delivery tends to be lower in the first six months than the last six months of the year and therefore comparisons with the previous six-monthly period are not usually appropriate.
• A small number of the affordable housing starts reported by the HCA over this period are actually located in London (the Get Britain Building programme in London is administered by the HCA on behalf of the GLA).

With effect from 1 April 2014, affordable housing starts on site include the starts on site for new build homes purchased at completion. These have not been reported historically

Links to Further Information

http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/housing-statistics

http://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/housing-land/increasing-housing-supply/gla-affordable-housing-statistics

Contact Details

CorporatePerformance@communities.gsi.gov.uk

This has been derived based on net additional homes provided and the number of affordable homes delivered. This expresses a simple count of affordable housing units provided - newly built, including gains from conversions such as subdivision, and acquisitions, as a percentage of the net increase in overall dwelling stock over one year, calculated as the sum of new build completions, minus demolitions, plus any gains or losses through change of use and conversions.

Net additions does not include new delivery and acquisitions to the existing stock. Affordable housing is the sum of social rent, affordable rent, intermediate rent (including London Living Rent), affordable home ownership, shared ownership, London affordable rent and First Homes.

This should be considered alongside the actual numbers reported for affordable dwellings and overall new dwellings, however as these are given as absolute values for each area care should be taken when drawing any comparisons with other areas. Some percentages therefore may be over 100%.

New build figures are from the annual 'housing supply; net additional dwellings' statistical release may not correspond to new build data from the quarterly 'Housing supply: indicators of supply' building control reported completions statistical release. New build data collected for 'net additions dwellings' is more comprehensive, as this collection is over a longer time period, is based on all available evidence (e.g., site visits, council tax records, planning databases, building control records and any other sources), and may pick up some elements missing from the quarterly P2 and AIR collections (which are based on building control reported completions only).

Data is Powered by LG Inform Plus and automatically checked for new data on the 3rd of each month.

This release presents data on affordable housing supply in England. This was previously entitled 'Gross Affordable Housing Supply’ and has been renamed to 'Affordable Housing Supply’. This is following an assessment recommendation by the UK Statistics Authority in order to align the naming conventions used across the Publication Hub and the DCLG website. This should help users to find comparable releases over time. The scope and definitions of the statistics have not been changed. Source agency: Communities and Local Government Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Gross Affordable Housing Supply, England

Additional affordable dwellings by local authority district, England 1991-92 to 2016-17

This dataset describes the additions to the stock of affordable housing from the period 1991-92 to 2016-17, broken down by local authority district. Note that over that period, there have been numerous changes to the structure of local government, therefore some districts do not have values for the full series of years, only for those years when the corresponding local authority was in operation. Affordable housing is the sum of affordable rent, social rent, intermediate rent and affordable home ownership. Affordable homes are defined in line with the National Planning Policy Framework, published 27 March 2012, as housing units (or traveller pitches and bed spaces when describing a shared dwelling such as a hostel) provided to specified eligible households whose needs are not met by the market. Eligibility may be determined with regard to local authority allocations policies, local incomes and local house prices depending on the type of affordable housing. Affordable housing should include provisions to remain at an affordable price for future eligible households or for the subsidy to be recycled for alternative affordable housing provision. Affordable rented housing is a new form of social housing, introduced in 2011 as the main type of affordable housing supply. It may only be delivered with grant through the Affordable Homes Programme 2011-17 and other associated and subsequent programmes or without grant by local authority and other providers, where a contract or confirmation of the ability to charge an affordable rent is in place. Affordable rented homes are let by local authorities or private registered providers of social housing to households who are eligible for social rented housing. Affordable rent is subject to rent controls that require a rent of up to 80 per cent of the local market rent (including service charges, where applicable). Social rented housing is rented housing owned and managed by local authorities and private registered providers, for which target rents are determined through the national rent regime. It may also include rented housing managed by other persons and provided under equivalent rental arrangements to the above. Intermediate affordable housing is housing at prices and rents above those of social rent but below market price or rents, and which meet the criteria as set out in the definition for affordable housing. These can include equity loan products, shared ownership and intermediate rent. The data in this dataset were derived from Tables 1006C, 1006aC, 1007C and 1008C of the DCLG 'Live statistical tables', available in the form of Excel spreadsheets here. For further guidance see the Affordable Housing Supply: April 2016 to March 2017 England Statistical Release.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Quarterly Scotland figures for the Affordable Housing Supply Programme approvals, starts and completions, split by category, form of housing supply, and type of housing supply from 2000-01 to the latest quarter.

Total affordable housing completions by financial year in each London borough since 1991/92. The information includes both homes funded through programmes directly managed by the GLA (and formerly by the Homes and Communities Agency) and homes funded through other sources and programmes. Affordable housing is the sum of social rent, affordable rent, intermediate rent and low cost home ownership. New affordable homes are additional housing units (or bed spaces) provided to specified eligible households whose needs are not met by the market. Data is from Homes and Communities Agency and Local Authorities. See data on DCLG website

The files below provide the affordable housing statistics for GLA funded programmes. The GLA is committed to open and transparent reporting and will publish statistics relating to housing delivery in London.

Downloads

• - Monthly GLA housing starts and completions data by programme, tenure and Local Authority, since April 2009.

• - Annual Affordable Housing Additional Information by bedroom size by Local Authority:

Tables include:

• 1 Completions outturn by bedroom breakdown and borough
• 2 Starts-on-Site outturn by bedroom breakdown and borough
• 3 Completions outturn by bedroom breakdown and programme
• 4 Starts-on-Site outturn by bedroom breakdown and programme
• 5 Rent Completions outturn by bedroom breakdown and borough
• 6 Home Ownership Completions outturn by bedroom breakdown and borough
• 7 Rent Starts-on-Site outturn by bedroom breakdown and borough
• 8 Home Ownership Starts-on-Site outturn by bedroom breakdown and borough
• 9 Average Weekly Rents (all programmes) for completed homes by bedroom breakdown by borough
• 10 Affordable Homes Programme: Average weekly rent as % of market rent for homes completed by bedroom breakdown and borough.

This information supplements previous releases of national housing statistics published by the
Homes and Communities Agency (external website).

To see future Publication Dates of the affordable Housing Statistics, please click here.

Annual scheme level data

A data set of scheme completions and starts since April 2011 is available. This data set will be updated on an annual basis.

See some of this data represented in charts and maps using Tableau reporting.

Visit GLA website for more information.

Further to the GLA's scheme of delegations, the Mayor has delegated authority to the Executive Director of Housing and Land to approve engagement with, and allocations to, new and existing housing providers bidding to deliver additional affordable homes in London. The approvals include bids for new schemes in existing programmes and the approval of variations to existing scheme allocations. The Additional Allocations file below lists additional funding approved under this delegation.

AHP Conversions

This report is based on information on conversions provided to the GLA by the Social Housing Regulator, the conversion data is as submitted by providers in their quarterly survey via NROSH+ (a website for all private registered providers except local authority providers to submit their annual data returns required by the Social Housing Regulator).

This dataset is about book series. It has 1 row and is filtered where the books is Rural housing supply : a 1990 survey of affordable new homes. It features 10 columns including number of authors, number of books, earliest publication date, and latest publication date.

Included is all data required to replicate the analysis (including robustness checks) for "Using a natural experiment to evaluate the effect of grant on affordable housing supply in England."

The code is available in a separate repository: Supporting code for "Using a natural experiment to evaluate the effect of grant on affordable housing supply in England" by Michael Marshall. doi:10.15131/shef.data.23661516

A guide to all datasets, including their original location and access date, is provided in the file 06_guide_to_datasets.xlsx.

To replicate the analysis, you will need R (and preferably RStudio), and to have installed the pacman package. All scripts are numbered sequentially and can be run from the 00_master.R file.

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