Affordable Housing Capital Funding Guide 2010/11

This is the homepage of the Affordable Housing Capital Funding Guide. This Guide contains the rules and procedures for housing associations that have received grants through the National Affordable Housing Programme from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA).

As well as grant funded schemes, this Guide will also provide occasional information on Nil and Absolute Nil Grant schemes.

For more details of the legislative basis of this guide, please see the Introduction section.

Announcements 2010/11

Grant recipients should familiarise themselves with the announcements below as soon as possible. The links shown refer to the most recent amendments. To see older announcements, including those for previous years, please click on "view all" below.

NBHB staircasing 

RCGF Permitted Uses

Glossary Updates

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Using this site

Affordable housingThe Affordable Housing Capital Funding Guide (AHCFG) contains six books. These can be accessed by clicking on the headings in the pink boxes above. The Related Information menu to the right of the page contains a number of extra pages relevant to particular parts of the AHCFG. If you can’t find what you’re looking for in the AHCFG, you may wish to look at the Guide Index or use the search facility. Older versions of the AHCFG are available in the library below.

Alongside the requirements in the guide, there is additional guidance, indicated by an asterisk symbol. The guidance will appear in a pop-up box when you click on the asterisk like this:

This is how the extra guidance appears.

Once a pop-up box is open, the main entry is greyed out. However, if you move the pop-up box to the left hand side of the screen and resize it, the guidance can be viewed at the same time as the corresponding text in the requirements.

AHCFG library

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