Raab: Councils Can’t ‘Abdicate Responsibility’ Over Affordable Homes

Housing minister Dominic Raab says the government can’t allow councils to “abdicate their responsibility” over affordable homes. But Raab offered councils little on lifting the debt cap telling the Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, only that submissions to government will be considered. The issue, said Raab, said was of best leverage of a council’s position to get homes built. Government, he said, will prioritise priorities areas of “highest demand” with expensive prices. Challenged over the total amount invested on affordable housing being less than total increase on Help to Buy, Raab said: “We want to make for low and middle incomes that homes are being built.” Read more on 24housing.

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