The 4,000,000th home classed as Social or Affordable Housing is due to be completed and open in Marple, Stockport this week. Stockport Homes brought the development on Peacefield forward for residential development in 2012 and it has benefitted from over £400,000 from the Government’s Affordable Homes Programme.
Locally Stockport has received over £10 million from the Affordable Homes Programme, which has helped to deliver nearly 500 affordable homes for people in Stockport since 2011.
98,000 affordable homes have been delivered nationally through the programme since it started in 2011, which is more than half way toward the target of 170,000 by 2015.
Commenting, Andrew said –
“This is a huge achievement. At long last we’ve started to reverse the catastrophic losses of social homes for rent under the Tories and Labour. This is a historic moment when England once more has 4 million social homes for rent, something Labour threw away back in 2005. It is very much down to the Liberal Democrats in Government that tenants and those on Stockport’s waiting list can have some prospect of an affordable home in the future.”