Monday, 8 July 2013

Funding Rules Will Not End Social Housing

Landlords will not be expected to convert all re-lets to affordable rents in the new funding programme, a civil servant has stressed.  Graham Duncan, deputy director of affordable housing regulation and investment at the CLG, yesterday denied suggestions that the new £3.3 billion funding programme marks ‘the end of social rented properties’. This followed housing minister Mark Prisk’s comments recently that landlords will be expected to consider all empty properties for conversion to ‘affordable rent’.  Read more on Inside Housing.

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