Thursday, 29 September 2016

Refocus Housebuilding On Towns And Villages To Solve Crisis

London has been given almost 100 times more housing zone funding than the rest of England combined, but has only built twice as many houses, new research has revealed. Calling for housebuilding investment to be more fairly distributed across the country, the Housing and Finance Institute (HFI) thinktank concludes that it is a “cultural myth” that the greatest need for homes is in the biggest cities. The organisation cited figures that show nearly 80,000 more people are on housing waiting lists in regional local councils than in the capital and metropolitan areas combined. The HFI report used housing-zone funding to support its argument that funding is skewed towards major urban centres. Download the report from the HFI website.

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