People on lower incomes will be forced out of York and
the city will become part of the London commuter belt unless solutions are
found to its housing crisis, a packed meeting was told. John Hocking, executive
director of Joseph Rowntree Housing Foundation, was speaking at a meeting
hosted by York Social. Both YorSpace, a community housing initiative, and York
Social urged the council to reconsider its approach to bids to buy council
property to enable non commercial organisations to provide lower cost housing
for local people. Mr Hocking said: "If York is going to grow, it needs the
housing base which is going to support its growing workforce." Read more
on The Press website.
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