The housing crisis isn’t just affecting some parts of our region.
It’s impacting households across West Yorkshire and the whole of the UK, with millions of people unable to access the safe, affordable and sustainable housing they need.
Around 85,000 households across West Yorkshire are on housing waiting lists. But by working together, we’re helping to address this by building more than 1,000 new homes a year to meet the needs of our communities.
How we’re making a difference
We’ve already made great progress towards meeting this demand. The affordable housing sector provides 186,141 homes across West Yorkshire – that’s 19% of all homes across our region.
We’re delivering new homes to high-quality standards and by using our shared knowledge and relationships to meet local needs. These new homes include a wide mix of tenures, including social rent, affordable rent, shared ownership and rent-to-buy.
Alongside new homes, we’re carrying out retrofit programmes to upgrade our existing homes and accelerate the transition from oil and gas heating systems to low-carbon alternatives, such as air source heat pumps and solar panels. We’re also installing smart technologies so we can better monitor and optimise energy efficiency to help cut carbon emissions and energy use for our customers. This is a key part of our priority to improving our sustainability.
We also recognise that building new homes contributes to economic growth and as local organisations we have an important role to play in helping local businesses thrive. That’s why we employ local people and buy goods and services from local suppliers.
Read more and see examples of how we’re building affordable homes on our Case Studies page.
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Skills
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Sustainability
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