Seven more strategic partnerships with housing
associations across England are confirmed by Homes England today,
which will deliver an additional 13,475 affordable homes by March
2022.
The partnerships, which were announced as part of the Budget
2018, will secure a total of £653 million in grant funding from
the Affordable Homes Programme to deliver affordable homes
through housing associations. The deals include homes for social
rent in areas of high affordability pressures.
The housing associations for this new wave are:
Platform Housing Group (following the merger of Fortis and
Waterloo Housing Associations on the 1st October); Guinness and
Stonewater (in partnership); Optivo; Southern Housing Group;
Orbit; Thirteen; Vivid.
These are in addition to the eight housing association deals
announced in early July - bringing the total number of additional
affordable homes that will be delivered to 27,755.
Jackie Jacob, Homes England General Manager for Affordable
Housing Programmes said:
“Homes England is working with housing associations across
England who are prepared to be more ambitious to significantly
increase housing delivery and we welcome these seven new
partnerships announced in the Budget 2018.
“We have challenged housing associations to respond to a new way
of engaging strategically with Homes England and the response has
been excellent - we hope to be announcing more partnerships
between Homes England and housing associations in the coming
months.”
ENDS
For further media information please contact: Homes England press
office on 0207 393 2201 or Patsy Cusworth on 0796772328 or
patsy.cusworth@homesengland.gov.uk
NOTES TO EDITORS
Strategic Partnerships
|
Partnership
|
Grant
|
No. of additional affordable starts to March 2022
|
|
Platform
|
£71.8m
|
1,800
|
|
Guiness & Stonewater
|
£224m
|
4,500
|
|
Optivo
|
£44.9m
|
1,000
|
|
Orbit
|
£128.8m
|
2,762
|
|
Southern
|
£55.1m
|
1,005
|
|
Thirteen
|
£40m
|
1,000
|
|
Vivid
|
£88.2m
|
1,408
|
