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<p>The Government is providing support to housebuilders through the £3 billion Home
Building Fund. This will provide £1 billion of loans for small and medium builders,
custom builders and offsite construction, with an aim to deliver 25,000 homes by 2020,
as well as a further £2 billion loan funding for infrastructure and large sites throughout
England, unlocking a pipe line of up to 200,000 homes over the longer term. Furthermore,
the £2.3 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund, which is now open for bids, will unlock
up to 100,000 new homes.</p><p>The Government is also taking direct action to increase
housebuilding. Since 2015 departments have released land with capacity for 21,217
homes and identified land to be released by 2020 for a further 120,394 homes. We are
investing £7.1 billion in more affordable housing and have helped over 400,000 households
into home ownership through Government schemes including Help to Buy and Right to
Buy.</p><p>The Housing White Paper, <em>Fixing Our Broken Housing Market</em>, published
in February 2017, set out a long term, comprehensive strategy to build more homes,
through encouraging better, more realistic plan making which recognises housing need;
consulting on a new standardised way of assessing housing need; boosting the capacity
and capability of planning authorities and giving them stronger tools to ensure sites
with permission are built on; and supporting custom build homes and the use of modern
methods of construction.</p>
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