Friday, 31 January 2014

Landlords Reject HCA's Smaller Homes Requirement

Housing associations say they won’t bid for grant funding if they are required to build small homes. Scores of English landlords are threatening to reject £1.7 billion of government grant if they are forced to build large numbers of one and two-bedroom homes. The bidding criteria for the 2015/18 affordable homes programme, which covers all of England, apart from London, states that providers should ‘focus’ on providing smaller homes in areas where tenants are under-occupying. Read more on Inside Housing.

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