The Government's 12 social housing commitments

The government's social housing commitments made in last year's housing green paper:

• £6.5bn government investment in social housing over the next three years.
  
• £850m savings from greater efficiencies and better use of housing association assets to deliver major expansion in housing association delivery.
  
• 45,000 new social homes a year by 2010-11 and a goal to reach 50,000 in the next spending review.
  
• Significant expansion of the "temporary to settled" scheme in London which allows councils and partners to buy back properties for families in temporary accommodation.
  
• New ways for councils and ALMOs to build homes on council land.
  
• More opportunities for private sector to build social housing.
  
• A consultation on councils retaining housing capital receipts from shared ownership schemes to use for provision of affordable housing.
  
• Guidance on delivering affordable housing in rural areas.
  
• Regional Assemblies to advise on provision of rural housing within the affordable housing programme and a target will be set later in the year.
  
• The provision of support to some councils and local partners to adopt a mixed communities approach to transforming some of our most deprived areas.
  
• Continuation with the successful decent homes programme which has already reduced the number of non-decent homes by over one million with at least £2bn investment in ALMOs.
  
• Increased provision of family homes where they are needed, with government committed to developing a new indicator to measure people housed, from its funded programmes.