AQW 6054/16-21

Mr Andy Allen MBE
Ulster Unionist Party
East Belfast

Tabled Date: 25/10/2016
Answered On Date: 08/11/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities to outline how his Department plans to deliver 9,600 new social homes and 3750 new affordable homes between 2016 and 2021.

Answer:

As I advised during the debate on 18 October, I have been working with my officials on proposals for the draft Programme for Government delivery plans.

New social housing will be delivered through the Social Housing Development Programme. My Department has started to engage with the Housing Executive and housing associations to put in place a strategy to increase the delivery of new social homes to meet the target of 9,600 by 2021. The affordable housing target will be delivered through the Co-Ownership scheme, the Rent-to-Own scheme and the Affordable Homes Loan Fund, which are all delivered through housing associations.