Sentences with phrase «social rented homes»

It was confirmed that, following the Prime Minister's October announcement, a further # 2bn of funding would be given for affordable housing, including funding for social rented homes, with the aim, when added to existing funding, of providing at least 25,000 new affordable homes.

The funds will be targeted at low income homeowners, social rented homes and rental properties occupied by low income tenants by providing:

City Hall figures, obtained by the Green party on the London Assembly, reveal that following the completion of estate regeneration schemes currently in progress, or being planned, there will be an overall loss of more than 7,000 social rented homes across London.

Shelter is calling for an additional 20,000 extra social rented homes in this autumn's comprehensive spending review.

Not exact matches

The metros that top our list provide millennials a balance between a strong job market and reasonable rent and home prices, as well as a lively social scene.

Many good private colleges and even state universities are within a reasonable commute of the Chicagoland area, enabling students to live at home rent - free plus still experience the significant advantages of campus life: face - to - face instruction, networking and social interaction.

At the same time, we need greater investment in social housing and decisive action to make the private rented sector more accessible and affordable, along with radical solutions to tackle the severe shortage of truly affordable homes.

The council says that around 50 homes will be available at 50 % of market rent which is comparable to how much a social rent would be.

[60] Camden and Islington councils sought to require a high proportion of the resulting new homes to be made available for social rent, but Johnson overturned this and allowed homes designated as «affordable» to charge rents of up to 80 percent of market rates.

Thornberry strongly criticised Johnson, describing his definition of affordability as «nonsense», [59] and called for at least 50 % of homes in the new developments to be made available for social rent.

«With home ownership in decline, rents rising rapidly and social housing waiting lists at a record high, it's time to face up to the fact that we have a totally dysfunctional housing market,» NHF chief executive David Orr said.

However, more must be done to find solutions to the housing crisis and it is concerning that the Office for Budget Responsibility predicts there will be 14,000 fewer affordable homes built as a direct result of social housing rent cuts.

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.

«And for the millions locked out of the property market the options are becoming increasingly limited as demand sends rents rising sharply and social homes waiting lists remain at record levels.»

This includes 18,670 homes for social rent - 93 % of the 20,000 social rent target, and within that 4643 council homes - 93 % of the 5000 council house target.

And in those parts of the country where the need is greatest, allow homes to be built for social rent, well below market level.

Faced with a lack of social housing and vicious private sector rents, the party leaders fail to challenge the rhetoric that blames lack of homes on immigrants.

In the 1980s nearly three quarters of non home - owners lived in social rented accommodation.

Those already in the social rented sector would only see a reduction in their housing benefit if they are offered a suitable smaller home and, crucially, turn it down.

The chairman of the state Assembly Social Services Committee, Queens Democrat Andrew Hevesi, has begun quietly pushing a plan he says would reduce reliance on homeless shelters by creating a new rent subsidy to keep people in their homes.

Whereas in 1975 more than 80 % of housing subsidies were supply - side subsidies intended to promote the construction of social homes, by 2000 more than 85 % of housing subsidies were on the demand side aimed at helping individual tenants pay the required rent.

The chairman of the state Assembly Social Services Committee has begun quietly pushing a plan he says would reduce reliance on homeless shelters by creating a new rent subsidy to keep people in their homes.

Banks noted that some of the county's homeless arrived in city shelters after being evicted from their upstate homes and asked Broome County Social Services Commissioner Nancy Williams what anti-eviction legal services and rent - arrears programs her county offers.

Caitlin Timson, Social Media Manager: «I'm a bit of a tumbleweed blowing in the wind right now, currently going back and forth between my little rented room in Chicago and my home in Baltimore.

Much better to buy your home (website) rather than rent (social media).

It will involve invention and reinvention, crazy ideas, a marriage of the old and the new, social media re-imagined in a way that we're not renting or borrowing space on the web from Facebook or Twitter, Amazon or Kobo, but inviting guests into our own homes — our websites.

Owning a home in a community, long - term neighbors, pride of ownership and the stability involved with long - term ownership are all tangible social benefits that first - time home buyers gain over renting.

But social housing lawyers at national firm Clarke Willmott LLP say the focus remains heavily on home ownership rather than affordable and social rent.

Recent highlights include advising a national FTSE 250 contractor on delivering mixed - tenure housing for five registered providers, as well as assisting with site acquisitions for associated joint ventures and negotiating conditional sales contracts; advising Cambridge City Council on its options and powers to deliver below - market rented housing and below - market sale homes for residents who don't qualify for social housing; and handling Rykneld Homes» acquisition of a site in North Wingfield for the delivery of affordable housing, which included assisting with title issues, third party agreements and negotiations with the council to provide mutual rights of access and services.

The new form is required for most new private market residential tenancies entered into on or after April 30, 2018, including tenancies in single and semi-detached houses, apartment buildings, rented condominiums and secondary units (such as basement apartments), but it does not apply to most social and supportive housing, retirement and nursing homes, mobile home parks and land lease communities, or commercial properties.

Last summer, he moved out to Silicon Valley for a couple months and rented the «Mark Zuckerberg house,» a five - bedroom home in Palo Alto, depicted in the movie The Social Network as the nerdy frat house that served as Facebook's first unofficial HQ.

That means building genuinely affordable rent social homes — mostly council — and ensuring new homes are built wherever possible on brownfield sites with public transport and other facilities.

«The For Rent Media Solutions and Homes.com teams are committed to making the most of social media platforms to communicate with apartment and home shoppers as well as providing tools for our partner agents, brokers and multifamily professionals to thrive in the industry,» says Terry Slattery, president of For Rent Media Solutions and Homes.com.

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