Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Betts Questions Effectiveness of Housing Programme Funding

Following receipt of a letter from Eric Pickles Clive Betts MP said:

"At a time when the country urgently needs to deliver more housing, I am very concerned that public money for key house building programmes is sitting idle in the Government’s coffers.  The fact that money dedicated for housing is swishing around the Department’s bank account will be of little comfort to those people desperate to have their own roof over their heads. The Build to Rent Fund was supposed to provide equity finance to get much-needed private rented housing off the ground. However, the Government has now announced that some 80% of the fund will be ‘reprofiled’, meaning spending will be deferred to future years rather than starting to help people now. Read more on the Parliament website.

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