Friday, 25 July 2014

Invest in Housing like Transport and Energy Infrastructure

Problems with housing finance could be improved if housing investment was treated more like other key economic infrastructure such as transport, energy and skills, a report by IPPR North has said. It argues that there is greater justification for using public funds to invest in housing in areas of ‘marginal viability’ to support wider economic benefit and recommends raising the HRA borrowing cap and more use of housing bonds and local authority pensions funds to support housing investment. Download the report from the IPPR website.

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