When buying a newbuild, is the presence of affordable housing and social housing the same thing?

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1. A lot of developments have a requirement to provide some “affordable” housing.

2. New build developments are required to provide some ‘affordable housing’ – by law this currently has to cover 10% of the development but under a current review this may increase to 25%.

   All social housing is affordable housing, not all affordable housing is social housing. Affordable housing includes homes for social rent, shared ownership schemes, and homes sold under market value.

3. Snob.. affordable housing is shared ownership.. millionaires can be cunts too social class and bank balance has nothing to do with being good neighbors or people. All new developments have both so you can’t avoid them. Your middle class neighbors could rent out to whoever they want and there will be no housing officer or social landlord to complain to. Those flat were probably private social tenants have strict rules about upkeep.

4. Very much no. Affordable means jack in this country due to our leaders perception of affordable. Most people on modest salaries can’t afford affordable. Nor a single person on an above average one.

   Social means ‘can live in there on state benefits’, essentially. They used to be called council houses, but the councils decided to sell most of them and not build any more. In Plymouth, they straight up moved people out and let developers revamp them into ‘luxury sea view homes’. Likely because they set aside a small percentage as ‘affordable’ to gain planning permission.