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10/10/2008
Plan to increase affordable homes in rural areas |
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The number of affordable homes in rural areas could increase under new government powers.
Housing Minister Ian Wright has outlined proposals to give rural areas that are suffering from a severe housing shortage protected status to help keep them for local families.
Under the latest proposals affordable housing providers would be able to keep a share in new shared ownership homes or be given priority to buy them back.
This would mean that affordable homes could remain in those families. MR Wright also spoke about the opportunity to expand the government's Community Land Trusts (CLTs).
When a person takes on a home as part of the CLT scheme they only pay for the building and not for the land that the property stands on.
Graham Garbutt, chief executive of the Commission for Rural Communities, said: "Now is the time to be bringing forward proposals that will make a real difference backed up with funding already allocated to provide affordable homes in rural towns and villages."
Research by the National Housing Federation and the Campaign to Protect Rural England has found that waiting lists for affordable housing had risen by over a third in five years. |
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