Affordable Housing: Empty Property
Commons · Question 122972 · Tabled 23 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 31 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Clive Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many affordable housing units have been built which have never been occupied because no housing association has taken them on.
Answer
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 31 Mar 2026
My Department does not hold comprehensive, historic data on social and affordable homes that have been completed but remain unoccupied because a registered provider has not contracted with a housebuilder to acquire them. I otherwise refer the hon. Member ...