The Government’s response, published in 2005, to Kate Barker’s Review of Housing Supply set out an ambition to increase housing supply to 200,000 per annum by 2016. We are increasing provision of social rented housing to 30,000 homes in 2007-08 and have said that social housing will be a priority in the 2007 spending review. And we have plans to help 120,000 people into low cost home ownership in the five years to 2010.
The numbers of affordable homes supplied, in Solihull, in each year since 1997 are tabulated as follows. Figures include homes supplied through both new build and acquisitions.
1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 Social rent 47 69 18 141 33 34 38 68 42 Intermediate housing 13 16 7 22 0 23 57 75 102 Affordable (total) 60 85 25 163 33 57 95 143 144 Source: Local Authorities, Housing Corporation