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<p>The Government fully recognises the important role small and medium sized house
builders (SME) play in delivering the much needed housing in this country, including
contributing to social and affordable housing. Our priorities are to boost housing
supply and to build more affordable homes, supporting the different needs of a wide
range of people and built by a range developers, including SMEs. This is done through
over £9 billion Affordable Homes Programme to March 2022 which will deliver 250,000
new affordable homes of a wide range of tenures, including social rent. Since 2010,
we have delivered over 407,000 new affordable homes, including over 293,000 affordable
homes for rent.</p><p>SMEs also contribute towards the production of affordable housing,
including social housing through section 106 agreements with local authorities. The
national policy on developer contributions from small sites seeks to strike a balance
between increasing self-build and small-scale housing development, while recognising
the role of section 106 in helping to provide affordable housing. We continue to provide
support to SMEs to build more homes through the £2.5 billion Home Building Fund’s
short-term fund, a £1 billion SME guarantees scheme announced at Budget 2018 and changes
to the small sites policy in the National Planning Policy Framework.</p>
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