SME Support £39bn to build affordable homes at scale
Plans for 300,000 new social and affordable homes over the next decade will generate a pipeline of work for SME housebuilders and contractors, claims the industry. Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has said 60 per cent of the £39bnpledged for affordable housing should be spent on building 180,000 new homes where rent is linked to local income. “With investment and reform, this government is delivering the biggest boost to social and affordable housing in a generation, unleashing a social rent [...]