Councils are calling on the government to go further
after a senior official revealed a long-awaited £1bn fund can be combined with
Right to Buy receipts and grant. Rebecca Shrubsole, a senior official in the
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, said the new Housing
Revenue Account (HRA) borrowing programme announced in the Autumn Budget will
be free of the “restrictions” of the last HRA programme in 2012, which was quietly
wound down after £220m was allocated to build just 3,000 of the 10,000-home
target. Read more on Inside Housing.
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