Housing leaders are calling on the government to establish a £1.3bn ‘national housing conversion fund’ to enable social landlords to buy up private housing amid warnings of a housing market downturn. The Affordable Housing Commission said that such a fund could deliver 42,500 new affordable homes and 9,300 new jobs. It argued the fund could mitigate an anticipated downturn in the housing market and would be a cost-effective way to help tenants and increase the provision of social housing. Similar schemes have been introduced during past recessions, for example in the early 1990s through the Conservative government’s Housing Market Package. Read more on Inside Housing.
Country diary: The challenge of making a thatched roof pine-marten proof |
Tom Allan
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*Glenisla, Angus:* Damage by squirrels is common; the mustelid less so.
Still, as a local told me, ‘you cannae blame them wanting somewhere to live’
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