Mayors setting housing agenda to build more social and affordable homes for the first time, backed by £7 billion funding from historic decade-long programme

Sweeping measures to strip away barriers for councils to build at scale, helping more families escape temporary accommodation and agonising waiting lists

Alongside £150 million package to give Mayors the tools to transform neglected brownfield land into high-quality homes, jobs, and green spaces

Mayors outside of London will be given greater influence over the government’s multi-billion-pound affordable housing programme, as part of the Housing Secretary’s drive to accelerate the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation.

Through the government’s historic £39 billion Social and Affordable Homes Program

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