Jessica Arczynski
Jessica Arczynski is a Senior Associate at Trowers & Hamlins with a specialism in public sector affordable housing. Her main area of focus is grant funding for affordable homes and decarbonisation works, acting for central and local authorities (including the Greater London Authority) as well as registered providers and private entities. She has also advised widely on public sector development, regulation and governance, vires issues and corporate structuring (e.g. local housing companies and joint ventures). Jessica is also a non executive director of a London-based not for profit that supports equitable community development.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2015
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts (2004)
- LLB (Hons) (2011)
Education
- McGill University (2000 – 2004)
- King's College London (2008 - 2011)
- Kaplan Law School (2011 - 2012)
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PRACTICE NOTES
Affordable housing grant and subsidy in England: Homes England/GLA programmes, Subsidy Control Act 2022, HRA 2008 protections, planning and section 106
What is grant funding/public subsidy for affordable housing?
Affordable housing grants have been around for many years, but a structured capital funding framework designed to underpin affordable housing delivery only truly took hold from the 1980s with the coming into force of the Housing Act 1988 (HA 1988). Initially confined to housing associations, grant support described as ‘social housing assistance’ is now open to a broader category of beneficiaries (see Who can apply for grant funding/public subsidy for affordable housing? below), and responsibility for the regime’s operation is split between the Homes and Communities Agency (trading as Homes England) and the Greater London Authority (the GLA). Although other public bodies (such as local authorities and combined authorities) may exercise grant-awarding functions, this Practice Note concentrates on the grant regime administered by Homes England and the GLA and on the provision of social housing assistance. In this context, any reference to grants in this Practice Note is a reference to social housing assistance made available through the government-sponsored Affordable Homes Programme (see the paragraph beginning ‘The main funders in England’ below)...
Planning
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