Friday, 19 January 2018

Single Council Snapshot Shows 28 Bids For Every ‘Affordable’ Home

Demand for affordable housing is so high in Salford that 28 people are bidding for every property that becomes available. And that’s despite another new 461 affordable properties having been made available in the last year. The figures are from the latest update from Salford City Council’s affordable housing programme which aims to deliver a mixture of social rented, affordable rented and shared ownership homes. This report says that although 17% of new homes provided in Salford last year by developers, landlords and housing associations were affordable the city still needs 760 new affordable homes each year to meet need. Read more on 24housing.

http://www.24housing.co.uk/news/single-council-snapshot-shows-28-bids-for-every-affordable-home/

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