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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/513598/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>There was an estimated 23.4 million dwellings in England as of 31 March 2014, an increase of 137,000 dwellings on the previous year. This includes 4 million social and affordable rented dwellings (Private Registered Providers plus local authority tenures) (1).<\/p><p>We are doubling the housing budget to deliver one million more homes, including spending £8 billion to build 400,000 new affordable housing starts by 2021, the biggest new affordable homes programme since the 1970s, and committing £2.3 billion towards delivering 200,000 new Starter Homes.<\/p><p>(1) Source: DCLG Dwelling Stock Estimate, 2014, England <br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/423249/Dwelling_Stock_Estimates_2014_England.pdf<\/p>"}
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