G15 Calls For Additional Funding To Convert Unsold Units To Key Worker ‘Homes For Heroes’

The G15 group of London’s largest housing associations has urged government to provide financial backing to convert unsold properties into affordable homes for key workers, as part of a new five-year programme to deliver 100,000 ‘homes for heroes’. In a report, the group set out a number of requirements for scaling delivery over time, including an opportunity to “invest in precision-manufactured homes on a scale not seen since the original Homes Fit for Heroes programme” launched in 1918. But it said that to help essential workers in the shorter term there should be an “immediate response to make available completed or nearly completed homes”, with government funding matched to housing associations’ resources. Read more on the Social Housing website.

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