The project, officially called Reviving Communities, aims
to bring empty and dilapidated homes back into use. The authority is investing
£1.5m to purchase and refurbish up to 25 privately owned vacant homes in the Hanley
area of the city. Local residents will then be able to buy a home which has
been renovated by the council for £1, paying for the cost of the works through
a 10-year low-interest loan of £30,000. Under the first phase of the scheme
launched in 2013, 33 of the council’s own properties were transformed and
reoccupied – and it will reinvest loan repayments from buyers of those homes to
help fund the second phase. Read more on Inside Housing.
‘Those two weeks felt how the world should be’: the young single mums who
took on the housing crisis – and won
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When a group of teenage mothers were evicted from their homeless hostel,
Focus E15, they took over a tower block of empty council flats in protest.
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