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More for less A survey finds housing association finance directors sceptical about government plans to boost affordable and social housing. A year ago, government-commissioned report showed that the present rate of new provision of social housing – estimated at around 30,000 units per year – fell short of newly-arising need by about 17,000 units. She […]
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Social landlords have a choice. Watch your arrears grow or help your tenants avoid debt. Britain is floating on a sea of debt. We owe almost £50 billion on our credit cards and £700 billion on our mortgages. But we show no signs of kicking the debt habit. We borrowed an extra £10 billion in […]
London: affordable housing developments - are they affordable? If the housing green paper targets one place above all, it must be London. The crisis in affordable housing is clear to anyone who’s not an owner in the current house price boom. And another crisis remains: of long-term social exclusion and chronic underinvestment in the housing […]