Question reference: S5W-30177
- Asked by: Tom Mason, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 23 June 2020 Registered interest
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Current status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 7 July 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the Strategic Housing Investment Framework has made on the building of affordable homes, and what its position is on whether its formula requires updating.
Answer
The Strategic Housing Investment Framework (SHIF) was agreed with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) in 2012 to determine the initial allocation of Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) capital funding to 30 of the 32 local authority areas, (funding for Glasgow City Council and City of Edinburgh Council is governed by an annual grant offer). The impact of the SHIF formula is to ensure initial allocations take into account affordability, deprivation, rurality and homelessness in each local authority area, as well as the overall number of households. Its introduction was phased in and implemented in full in 2018-19. The statistics that inform the SHIF were reviewed and updated in 2019. As the allocation of AHSP funding was set for three years in 2018-19 to give councils long term certainty of future funding levels, the updated SHIF formula will be applied in 2021-22.