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<p>Section 11 of the Building Safety Bill: Impact Assessment provides estimates of
the average costs per building for addressing safety remediation in high rise (18
metres and above) buildings. These estimates consider all necessary remediation, which
goes beyond façade remediation. Social sector building owners have been able to access
the £400m Social Sector ACM Cladding Remediation Fund, which supports the removal
and replacement of non-compliant ACM cladding on buildings over 18 metres. We have
also launched a fund of £1 billion to cover the costs of remediating unsafe non-ACM
cladding on residential buildings over 18 metres tall - and whilst this is focused
on private sector leaseholders, it is available to social landlords facing affordability
issues, and will also cover the costs of leaseholders in social housing. On 10 February
we announced a multi-billion pound investment to protect hundreds of thousands of
leaseholders from the cost of replacing unsafe cladding on their homes. We are also
establishing a generous scheme to ensure, where required, cladding removal can take
place on buildings between 11 and 18 metres. As part of this financing scheme, leaseholder
payments towards remediation costs will be capped at a maximum £50per month.</p>
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