Affordable rural housing: 1997/08 - 2005/06
From 1997/98 to 2005/06 a total of 336,937 new affordable homes have been provided in England. Chart 2 shows the breakdown of affordable homes provided in urban and rural areas, by year over this period.
- A fifth (20%) of these new homes have been provided in rural local authority areas - or 71,060 new affordable homes.
- Total new provision of affordable housing units fell from 46,358 per year in 1997/98 down to around 32,000 per year in the early 2000s. Since 2002/03, the total number of new affordable housing units has increased to the present 2005/06 total of 44,861.
Chart 2: Total New Affordable
Housing Provided 1997/98-2005/06 
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Chart 3 shows the breakdown of new affordable homes provided in rural areas by social rented and intermediate housing between 1997/1998 and 2005/2006.
- The growing significance of intermediate housing as part of the rural affordable housing mix is shown. New social rented homes decline from 8,150 units per year in rural areas (rural-50 and rural-80) in 1997/98 to 4,718 in 2004/05 (and up to 5,847 in 2005/06). At the same time, provision of new intermediate homes per year in rural areas increase from 817 in 1999/00 to 4,342 in 2005/06.
(26
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- As shown in Chart 3, the growing significance of intermediate housing as part of the affordable housing mix is shown for both urban and rural areas.
Chart 4: New Social Rented
and Intermediate Housing Provided 1997/98-2005/06. (26
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modified: 23 April
2007
Page published: 20 September 2006