Thursday 16 November 2017

Social Housing: Ministers Move Debt To Boost Building

Plans to encourage housing associations to borrow money to invest in new homes are being announced as part of a fresh government house-building drive. Housing associations will be reclassified as private bodies allowing their £70bn debt to be removed from the government's balance sheet. Housing providers said changing their financial status would help them secure the "long-term finance" needed. But Labour said there was no coherent plan to address the "housing crisis". Read more on the BBC website.

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