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<p>We have announced a range measures to support housing associations and local authorities
to build more genuinely affordable homes across England.</p><p>We are lifting the
Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap so that local authorities can deliver a new
generation of council housing and we have made £9 billion available through the Affordable
Homes Programme to March 2022 to deliver 250,000 new affordable homes of a wide range
of tenures, including social rent homes where they are needed most.</p><p>The Prime
Minister recently announced a £2 billion long term funding pilot, starting in 2022,
committing this funding up to 2028-29. This ten year funding commitment marks the
first time any government has offered housing associations such long-term funding
certainty.</p><p>We have also confirmed long-term rent certainty for social landlords
in England and in August we published our consultation on options for allowing local
authorities more flexibility in the use of their Right to Buy receipts.</p><p>Affordable
housing provision in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland is a devolved matter.</p>
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