United Kingdom · Question · Written question
HL HL406
Affordable Housing
Introduced
18 June 2014
Last action
30 June 2014 · Answer
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Housing
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30 June 2014
Summary
To ask Her Majesty's Government how they define affordable housing in terms of (1) maximum proportion of after-tax income of those on average earnings needed to pay rent, and (2) multiple of gross income needed to buy a house.
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18 June 2014
Written question
To ask Her Majesty's Government how they define affordable housing in terms of (1) maximum proportion of after-tax income of those on average earnings needed to pay rent, and (2) multiple of gross income needed to buy a house.
Source: Lords
30 June 2014
Answer
We do not define affordable housing in those terms. The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (sections 68 – 70) defines social housing as low cost rental accommodation and low cost home ownership accommodation. In the Act, a low cost rent is simply defined ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2014-06-18/HL406
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/62477
- uk · wq-62477 · source updated 30 June 2014