Despite tough public expenditure conditions driven by Westminster, we have secured further significant investment for housing, including our ambitious affordable housing supply and energy efficiency programmes. Our draft budget for 2018-19 shows our commitment to delivering on those, with an increase to the more homes budget and maintenance of the fuel poverty and energy efficiency budget at its current level.
I will address each of those elements in turn, starting with how we are increasing the capital spending on housing supply. The budget document notes that the total spend on more homes will be increased by 24 per cent to £723 million. All of the £523 million capital funding for more homes will be directly invested in the affordable housing supply programme, chiefly for social housing. Together with the £92 million funding for transfer of management of development funding, which sits in the local government budget line, the total capital investment will be £615 million. That is a £144 million increase on the equivalent figure for 2017-18, and it will enable councils and housing associations to increase the momentum that is needed to accelerate the pace of delivery.
We have allocated £141 million of financial transactions to the affordable housing programme, which means that the total budget for affordable housing in 2018-19 will be £756 million. That is the most powerful way to invest in housing supply for a fairer Scotland.
On improving energy efficiency, our focus continues to be on reducing overall energy costs for Scottish consumers by improving energy efficiency in homes where we can. Next year, we will again allocate £114 million to tackle that and improve the energy efficiency of our homes. That investment demonstrates our long-term commitment to addressing the challenges of climate change and the inequality of fuel poverty in our society. We will deliver on that through our existing and developing fuel poverty programme, which offers a package of support to help those who are struggling to pay their energy bills and keep themselves warm.
Finally, I turn to the important matter of our on-going work to tackle homelessness. The homelessness and rough sleeping action group has already identified the immediate actions needed to tackle rough sleeping this winter, which we are implementing right now. By late spring 2018, the group will be providing recommended longer-term actions to end rough sleeping, transform the use of temporary accommodation and move to end homelessness.
In our programme for government, we committed £50 million to the ending homelessness together fund over the next five years, with the first £10 million set out in the draft budget statement. I look forward to the further recommendations of the action group early next year and to taking forward a lasting change and improvement to ensure that everyone has a safe and stable home.
Overall, therefore, despite the tough public expenditure conditions, we will still provide significant investment and meet our commitments to build more affordable homes, improve energy efficiency and end homelessness.