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<p>The Government is committed to increasing the supply of social housing and has
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 homes for
social rent.</p><p>In addition to this, we announced an additional £2 billion of long
term funding certainty for housing associations. This extra funding will deliver more
affordable homes and stimulate the sector’s wider building ambitions, through strategic
partnerships. Our ten year funding commitment through strategic partnerships marks
the first time any government has invested such long-term funding in new homes through
housing associations.</p><p>Since 2010, we have delivered over 407,000 new affordable
homes, including over 293,000 affordable homes for rent.</p><p>On 25 March we published
a joint study by MHCLG and DWP on the causes of homelessness and rough sleeping. We
are currently considering options for how we will take forward the main study following
completion of the feasibility study. We will report back to the Public Accounts Committee
in June 2019.</p><p> </p>
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