Question reference: S5W-36223
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee City East, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 12 March 2021
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Current status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 19 March 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many houses have been built in Dundee in each year since 2016, also broken down by whether they were (a) affordable, (b) social rent or (c) private housing.
Answer
The following table shows the number of (a) other affordable rent & affordable home ownership, (b) social rent and (c) private-led homes delivered in Dundee each financial year since 2016-17.
Financial Year | Other | Affordable | Social Rent
| Private-led New | Total
|
2016-17 | 6 | 30 | 87 | 155 | 278 |
2017-18 | 0 | 42 | 103 | 151 | 296 |
2018-19 | 0 | 29 | 112 | 201 | 342 |
2019-20 | 15 | 19 | 71 | 168** | 273 |
2020-21* | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
Total | 21 | 123 | 373 | 675 | 1,192 |
* Figures up to 30 September 2020 (Quarters 1 and 2)
** Figure up to 31 December 2019 (Quarters 1 to 3)
Sources: Scottish Government Housing and Regeneration Programme (HARP) system, and NB2 private-led new build completions data sourced from local authority administrative systems.
Affordable rent and social rent completions consist of new build, open market purchase and rehabilitation homes. Of the 517 homes delivered since 2016-17 in Dundee, 369 were new build homes; of which 363 were for social rent and 6 for other affordable rent. The next set of quarterly affordable housing statistics (October to December 2020) are due to be published in the next Housing Statistics Quarterly update on 23 March 2021.
Within the Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) social rent completions can include homes for Registered Social Landlord (RSL) and Council House social rent. Other affordable rent completions include homes for mid-market rent. Affordable home ownership completions include homes for RSL and Council House shared equity as well as the Open Market Shared Equity scheme. A more detailed breakdown of which tenures are included in each category can be seen in the table AHSP Expenditure by Category for 2019-20 within the latest AHSP 2019-20 Out-turn Report, found at the following link:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/affordable-housing-supply-programme-out-turn-report-2019-2020/
Private-led new build completions figures include not only homes built for private sale but also some homes which are used in the affordable housing sector and self-build activity, although these categories are not separately identifiable. There therefore may be some homes that appear in both the private-led new build completions figures as well as in the other affordable rent or social rent figures presented.
Due to COVID-19 related delays in data provision by some local authorities, private sector led completions figures are only available up to December 2019, with figures up to March 2020 being published in the next Housing Statistics Quarterly update on 23rd March 2021.
The following is a link to a list of social and affordable completions delivered by each local authority since 2007-08:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/affordable-housing-supply-programme-completions-updates/
Official statistics on new housebuilding and affordable housing supply are published on the Scottish Government Housing Statistics webpages at https://www.gov.scot/collections/housing-statistics/ , with Excel tables available at
https://www.gov.scot/publications/housing-statistics-for-scotland-new-house-building/