Rethinking the Affordable Housing Funding Machine

Details: 12.Oct.2026

Winckworth Sherwood 120x90 The UK’s affordable housing model is undergoing the greatest structural financial shift the sector has seen in decades. Click here to read Winckworth Sherwood's new report Rethinking the Affordable Housing Funding Machine finds that private capital has moved from a peripheral source of funding to a central part of how affordable homes get built, retrofitted and managed.

The report, based on in-depth interviews with more than 20 industry leaders from across the affordable and social housing sector, points to the combination of the £39 billion Social and Affordable Homes programme, a longer-term rent settlement and the National Housing Bank drawing in £50 billion of private investment as the catalyst.

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