Affordable Housing

What is affordable housing?

‘Affordable housing’ is housing available to people unable to afford to rent or buy property generally available on the open market. It includes rented accommodation, and Home Buy (shared ownership).

Long term vision

We want to deliver a significant increase in the number of affordable homes across the district with a substantial rise in the amount of land made available for building affordable housing. We will aim to prevent homelessness wherever possible and otherwise ensure that accommodation is made available for those who do become homeless. We want to make sure that existing and new affordable homes are of a good quality and well managed, involving tenants in decisions affecting their homes.

The position now and key challenges we face

Our Housing Strategy outlines how we will achieve significant increases in the supply of affordable homes. Our target for this financial year is that we will work with our partners to build 30 affordable homes plus one rural housing scheme, but we want to get to a position where we are able to deliver much more than this.

We aim to manage our existing council homes effectively and efficiently through an annual Housing Revenue Account budget of £12.6 million. We seek to prevent homelessness and offer a range of housing advice to support vulnerable people, help people secure suitable housing, and promote independent living.

Rented Accommodation

For more information about rented properties please contact our Housing Needs Section on 01395 516551 or email housingneeds@eastdevon.gov.uk

Buying a Home

If you want to find out more about home buy (shared ownership) or low cost market housing please contact our Enabling Officer on 01395 516551 ext 2375 or email pjlowe@eastdevon.gov.uk

Or, click here to view the Home2Own website for information on all Low Cost Home Ownership products.

Developing Housing

If you are considering developing affordable housing within East Devon you may find it helpful to view the information contained on our Planning Pages by clicking here.