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NHF supply survey: housing association development starts rise by nearly a quarter
The number of homes started by housing associations in the three months to the end of June this year jumped by nearly a quarter compared with last year, new figures from the National Housing Federation (NHF) show.
The NHF survey found that 11,823 homes were started in the first quarter of 2019/20, an increase of 23.5% on the same period in 2019.
Across the 12 months until June 2019, there were 51,618 home starts by housing associations, up 17.5% from 43,896 in preceding period.
The figures also found that the number of housing completions in the 12 months to the end of June stood at 45,414. The number of completions fell slightly to 9,125 homes for the quarter compared with the previous year.
The NHF’s supply survey provides the most detailed statistics on housing association delivery when compared with government and Greater London Authority (GLA) statistics, which only captures activity in their funding programmes and does not attribute all Section 106 homes as being delivered by housing associations.
The number for social rent homes which were started across the 12 month period ending in June this year stood at 5,297 homes, over 10% of all home starts in the period.
This marked a rise from the 4,273 social rent homes started between June 2017 and June 2018.
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Details of the home starts found that over half (57%) of the affordable starts were delivered via Section 106 agreements in the three months from April to June, 43% of home completions were delivered outside the Affordable Homes Programme.
The figures from the NHF comes as Inside Housing analysis found that the top 50 housebuilding housing associations completed 38,000 homes across all tenures in 2018/19 compared with 35,370 the year before. The increase of 3,000 homes however was slightly less than the previous rise of 4,500 in the year before.
Catherine Ryder, director of policy and research at the NHF, said: “Between April and June 2019, housing associations built more than 9,000 homes (including 1,200 for social rent) – this demonstrates once again their vital work to build the homes the country needs and tackle the housing crisis. What’s more, they started work on almost 12,000 homes, an increase of about a quarter on the same period last year.
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“This is a record to be proud of but there is much more that needs to be done. Our research shows that 8.4 million people are hit by the housing crisis and that the country needs 145,000 social homes every year – including 90,000 for social rent – to end it once and for all.
“This can only happen with long-term, stable government investment, which is why it is vital that ministers commit to investing £12.8bn in social housing every year for a decade.”
