{"id":146745,"date":"2024-08-21T18:56:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T11:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/social-housing-rents-to-rise-as-part-of-uk-push-to-build-affordable-homes\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T08:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T01:24:21","slug":"social-housing-rents-to-rise-as-part-of-uk-push-to-build-affordable-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/social-housing-rents-to-rise-as-part-of-uk-push-to-build-affordable-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Social housing rents to rise as part of UK push to build affordable homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nRachel Reeves works on plan for 10-year formula to give councils and housing associations certaintySocial housing rents will rise by more than inflation over the next decade as part of UK government plans to boost affordable housebuilding and shore up the finances of struggling landlords.The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is working on plans to introduce a 10-year formula to calculate social rent on homes that will result in rents increasing every year by the rate of the consumer prices index \u2013 which is now 2.2% \u2013 plus 1%, removing an existing cap on rises. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/article\/2024\/aug\/21\/social-housing-rents-to-rise-uk-affordable-housebuilding-rachel-reeves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social housing rents to rise as part of UK push to build affordable homes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Rachel Reeves works on plan for 10-year formula to give councils and housing associations certaintySocial&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-CaR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":74124,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-guardian-view-on-social-housing-time-to-fight-for-affordable-rents-editorial\/","url_meta":{"origin":146745,"position":0},"title":"The Guardian view on social housing: time to fight for affordable rents | Editorial","date":"December 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Margaret Thatcher promised a property-owning democracy. 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