Sentences with phrase «new social housing»

By reducing the payment abilities of families on benefits, the government system for funding new social housing would also be adversely affected, the letter reads.

These would be genuinely affordable homes, with shared ownership and rent to buy as intermediate options, alongside new social housing for those that need it.

What is needed is a much wider use of models already tried and tested, which «lock in» affordability, and even deliver new social housing without subsidy.

We've had a 50 per cent increase in new social housing over the last 3 years but we need to go further, with local councils playing a stronger role to tackle overcrowding and help people on council waiting lists.

«We have a government that is selling social housing sites across the province, and have completely broken their promise to use the money from those sales to build new social housing.

The QFREB also welcomes the government's decision to maintain the RénoVert tax credit for renovations, as well as the announcement that 3,000 new social housing units are to be built.

But Harper has not spent one dollar on new social housing.

Conservative MP Jake Berry, an aide to Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps, said it showed «the housing crisis we have in our country» which dates back 20 years, and was made worse by a lack of new social houses.

The policy is likely to see a net loss to the Treasury as it provides temporary accommodation and homelessness services and seriously hinder the ability of the government to provide new social houses.

This has hit their budgets, discouraging investment in new social housing stock.

* cuts to housing benefit for the long - term unemployed receiving Jobseeker's Allowance * raising new social housing tenants» rents to up to 80 % of the market rate * bringing the Local Housing Allowance into line with the bottom third of rents (not the bottom half as currently) and * linking social rents to CPI and not rent inflation.

Three of these are new four - bedroom terraced houses, built to the passive house standard, and the first new social housing built by Lambeth council for ten years.

To provide QS input into the client's new social housing projects as part of a small team working in support of the housing project manager with the possible opportunity to project manager / client project officer / Employer's Agent for some of the individual housing build contracts within the housing projects

Companies may be forced to chuck in a few «affordable» homes here and there but plans for new social housing are few and far between.

Building new social housing will not be enough, though, if we do not also think about reassessing the presumption in government policy that home ownership is an eventual end - goal we should be aiming for.

The government hopes a further two million properties can be sold, with the funds reinvested in new social housing.

Mr Alexander is expected to announce a new social house - building programme, as well as offshore wind farms and progress on nuclear power stations.»

One third of the units at a new social housing development in the East Midlands have met the passive house standard — but the entire project was inspired by fabric first, low energy design.