Information on the number of empty properties that have been brought back into housing stock by Coventry City Council in each year since 2005 is not held centrally.
Information on the number of house building completions and the number of affordable new build homes delivered in Coventry since 1997-98 is provided in the following table:
House building completions Additional affordable new build homes delivered1 1997-98 * 110 1998-99 * 160 1999-2000 * 150 2000-01 * 60 2001-02 * 100 2002-03 806 260 2003-04 * 70 2004-05 * 120 2005-06 519 120 2006-07 871 190 2007-08 1,128 490 2008-09 506 240 ‘*’ = Denotes not available. 1 Rounded to nearest 10. Sources: 1. House building completions = Local authority returns to CLG and National House Building Council 2. Affordable new build homes = Homes and Communities Agency Investment Management System (IMS) and local authority returns to CLG
Not all affordable housing is delivered through new build completions, supply can also come from the acquisition and refurbishment of private sector homes. In 2008-09 for example a total of 270 additional affordable homes were delivered in Coventry.
Under round one of the Kickstart initiative, allocations of £973,000 were made to schemes in Coventry to provide a total of 111 homes all of which will be built by the end of March 2011.
There are two independent sources of data on actual numbers of mortgage possessions: The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) and the Financial Services Authority (FSA). However both are only available for the United Kingdom as a whole.