Kris Hopkins has called on councils to provide more land
for new housing to build 165,000 affordable homes over the next three years.
The housing minister spoke as the government called on housing associations,
local authorities and construction companies to bid for funding from a £23
billion affordable housing programme that will run between 2015 and 2018. The
165,000-affordable homes scheme, which includes private funding, will receive £3.3
billion from the CLG. Mr Hopkins stressed it was ‘vital’ that councils provided
more land for new housing under the programme. Bidders for the scheme will also
face pressure to sell off their most expensive council homes in order to access
money for new house building. They will be asked to demonstrate by the CLG that
they are using their property portfolio ‘in the most effective way possible’.
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