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Description
National Statistics on affordable housing supply in England, produced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The dataset, last updated on 2026-07 08, was previously titled 'Gross Affordable Housing Supply' and has been renamed following a UK Statistics Authority recommendation to align naming conventions. The scope and definitions of the statistics have not been changed.
Use Cases
Analyzing trends in affordable housing provision based on government statistics.
Modeling the relationship between housing supply and demographic or economic factors based on national data.
Benchmarking local authority performance on affordable housing delivery based on official statistics.
Forecasting future affordable housing needs based on historical supply data.
Strengths
Designated as National Statistics, indicating it meets official standards for quality and trustworthiness.
Produced by the authoritative source agency, Communities and Local Government.
Renamed to improve user discovery of comparable releases over time.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, focusing solely on England.
Provenance
Source
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Collection Method
Official government statistics collection.
Time Range
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Freshness
Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:33.464692; freshness should be verified.