Affordable Housing Supply Funding

Author: Kate Berry

PDF Published: Thursday 10 May 2018 (SB 18-36)

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Overview
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- Executive Summary
- Affordable Housing Supply Programme overview
  - Affordable Housing Supply Programme budget.
    
    Out-turn reports
  - Grants and Financial Transactions
  - Affordable Housing Supply Programme - type of housing funded
  - Management of the Affordable Housing Supply Programme
- Local Programmes
  - Resource Planning Assumptions
  - Scottish Government grant subsidy levels
    
    Grant Subsidy Benchmarks
    
    The greener standard
    
    Different subsidy levels for councils and RSLs
- National Programmes
- Affordable Housing Supply Targets
  - Affordable Housing Supply Completion Trends
  - Progress towards the 50,000 target
    
    Can the target be met?
- Challenges in meeting the target
  - Right homes? Right places?
- Other action to help increase housing supply
Sources

Image: Figure 1: Scottish Government More Homes Budget 2018-19

Graph showing the Affordable Housing Supply Expenditure/ Budget, and previous equivalents from 1999/00 to 2018/19

Image: Spending on the Affordable Housing Supply Programme has increased over the last few years.

Image: Affordable Housing Supply Completion Trends

Image: Subsidy rates have been increasing since 2011/12 but are still lower than in 2007/08

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Image: Figure 1: Scottish Government More Homes Budget 2018-19

Image: Spending on the Affordable Housing Supply Programme has increased over the last few years.

Image: Affordable Housing Supply Completion Trends

Image: Subsidy rates have been increasing since 2011/12 but are still lower than in 2007/08

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