Source · Select Committees · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 3
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The Government must publish statistics on net additions of the different tenures of affordable housing...
Recommendation
The Government must publish statistics on net additions of the different tenures of affordable housing per year, taking into account completions, sales, demolitions and conversions. These statistics are currently disparate or not collected. This is especially important to track changes in social rented stock which has been affected by significant number of conversions to affordable rent and Right to Buy sales. Data will need to be collected on Right to Buy sales for each tenure, demolitions per tenure, change of use per tenure, and all other reductions. This will bring social housing data in line with overall housing supply data. (Paragraph 29) Land
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The department already publishes overall stock figures for local authority and private registered providers, the latter collected by the Regulator of Social Housing, including some information by social and affordable rent. Data already collected and published includes: • Local Authority stock, including the social and affordable rent stock held within Housing Revenue Accounts; • Demolitions and conversions by local authorities; • Similar information for Private Registered Providers, which is collected by the Regulator of Social Housing; • Social Housing sales, including Right to Buy and; • Additional units to the affordable housing stock, by tenure, including those of local authorities, Private Registered Providers and Non-Registered Providers The department will investigate the feasibility of publishing data on affordable housing.