Sentences with phrase «social homes»

A firm commitment to increase house building by at least 100,000 houses a year by 2015 including at least 50,000 more social homes by freeing councils and housing associations to borrow and build.

That's the equivalent of building 50,000 new social homes, or # 2.5 billion, over the course of this parliament.

Last year, Right to Buy sales accounted for 88 % of the total number of social homes lost in the capital.

Yes, the new plan is clearly an improvement but there is still no provision for much needed social homes and it's still not clear how «affordable» these new homes will be.

Estate regenerations currently in progress will lead to the loss of at least 7000 social homes across the city.

«And for the millions locked out of the property market the options are becoming increasingly limited as demand sends rents rising sharply and social homes waiting lists remain at record levels.»

To start with the government could look at the large stock of expensive social homes and ask whether at a time of nearly 2 million families on council waiting lists, simply giving away properties worth hundreds of thousands of pounds to a single lucky family is fair.

As a result, the Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that 14,000 fewer social homes will be built between now and 2020/21.

Reflecting a downturn in investment, that proportion is now less than half and, since 2010/11, the number of new social homes built or bought has continued to drop from 39,560 to 6,550 in 2015/16.

That means building genuinely affordable rent social homes — mostly council — and ensuring new homes are built wherever possible on brownfield sites with public transport and other facilities.

Millennial home buyers undertake far more social home searches, seeking input from friends, relatives and neighbors 58 percent of the time, versus the Silent Generation, who poll friends just 37 percent of the time.

«Ultimately more social homes are needed to ensure all young people can find a safe and decent home.»

Whereas in 1975 more than 80 % of housing subsidies were supply - side subsidies intended to promote the construction of social homes, by 2000 more than 85 % of housing subsidies were on the demand side aimed at helping individual tenants pay the required rent.

The full budget document confirmed there would be a further # 2bn for «affordable housing» which will include funding for social homes.

The Green Party says it will end the «Right to Buy» scheme, where people can buy their council homes - and build 500,000 social homes.

An estimated 20,487 social homes have been lost in London since 2010.

Firstly, the Lib Dems should promote some kind of Keynesian stimulus in - order to build 100,000 more houses every year, including thousands more social homes.

This will mean more social homes every year from 2015 to 2018 than in any year under Labour, and the argument that spending less can not go along with better outcomes is yet again shown to be false.

Indeed, public sector building has growing support across the political spectrum, with Javid proposing a # 50bn fund for home building, while Labour is saying they would build 100,000 social homes a year.

«More social homes will be built this year than in any year under the last Labour gvernment,» he said.

When these senses become dull, a senior cat in a loud or social home may feel anxious or on edge.

Babycastles is an effort to provide a social home for the game development culture that has long been part of New York City.