HCA statistics

This section covers some of the HCA’s topline numbers, illustrating the breadth and impact of our work. You can also download some key facts from the housing and regeneration sector as a whole.

The HCA at a glance

£4.5bn: HCA affordable housing budget 2011-15.

£1.6bn: Decent Homes funding allocated to local authorities and ALMOs to halve the backlog of non-decent social homes by 2015, to a point at which self-financing by local authorities becomes viable.  A further £500m has been allocated to the Decent Homes Programmes of stock transfer organisations.

£1.1bn: Total value of HCA land and property assets, as at 31 March 2010. The land we own has a financial value to the taxpayer and a social value to communities. We seek to maximise the return on both.

150,000: New affordable homes projected to be built during 2011-15 through HCA investment. Decent high-quality homes that meet people’s needs and aspirations are the foundation stone of thriving communities. They are as important as health and education.
 
100,000: Estimated average number of people who benefit each year from a quality new home funded by the HCA, in a place they want to live, and at a price they can afford.

3,000: Apprenticeships currently being created or maintained through HCA investment. Apprenticeships and new jobs are the employment dividend of our work.

161: Local Investment Plans (LIPs) being negotiated with local authority partners as at August 2010. Where we work at the request of local authorities, LIPs set out agreed levels of investment and responsibilities for delivery, enabling local authorities to achieve ambitions for their own areas.

107: Former coalfield sites in the HCA’s National Coalfields Programme. The programme has regenerated more than 2,400 hectares of contaminated land, created more than 20,000 jobs and more than 2,700 new homes.
 
96: Redundant hospital sites being redeveloped under the HCA Hospital Sites Programme; making the best use of surplus public sector land and preserving the heritage of these buildings.
 
281: Investment Partners, pre-qualified to receive affordable housing funding as at March 2011. We are very clear that we cannot achieve anything without our partners.
 
45: Number of HCA led and/or funded schemes included in the top 100 biggest regeneration schemes in the UK in 2010. We were the number one public or private funder of regeneration with investment valued at more than £1.5bn.
 
10: Board members; providing strategic direction to the Agency.
 
6: The level of the Code for Sustainable Homes being achieved at Hanham Hall, South Gloucestershire, which will be England’s first large-scale zero carbon community. Our Carbon Challenge is demonstrating how to improve the environmental impact of housing in a way that can be replicated across the industry.

5: Advisory Groups informing our Board on the specialist areas of rural housing, vulnerable people, equality and diversity, quality and sustainability.

3: Key areas that form the focus of our role as an enabling, investment and regulation Agency.  We have the flexibility to use our investment where it is needed most and can have the biggest impact.

1: National housing and regeneration agency for England; the Homes and Communities Agency.

Download the housing and regeneration key facts (pdf - 38KB)