Homes England has announced statistics for homes started and
completed under its various programmes in 2021-22. These do not
include London which is the responsibility of the GLA. Housing
programmes delivered by Homes England resulted in 38,436 new houses
starting on-site and 37,164 houses completed between 1 April 2021
and 31 March 2022, as the sector began to recover from the Covid-19
pandemic.
- Proportion of affordable homes started and completed was up on
the previous year
- Increase in both starts and completions a result of a recovery
in housebuilding activity following the slowdown caused by the
Covid-19 pandemic.
- The number of homes for social rent started and completed
remains low.
Three-quarters (72 per cent) of starts (27,509) were for
affordable homes. 5,606 were for Affordable Rent. There were 4,778
starts under schemes including Shared Ownership and Rent to Buy.
15,144 starts were defined as 'Affordable Tenure TBC' homes, where
the ultimate tenure category is not known until completion. The
remaining 1,981 were for Social Rent, a 23 per cent decrease on the
previous year.
Of the housing completions, 26,485 (71 per cent) were for
affordable homes, which is an 11 per cent increase on the previous
year; of these, 13,929 were for Affordable Rent, an increase of 5
percent on the previous year, and 9,479 under Intermediate
Affordable Housing schemes. The remaining 3,077 were Social Rent
completions, up 62 per cent on the previous year.