Shelter calls for more affordable homes to be built
The government is being called upon to do more to provide affordable housing.
Speaking in response to government figures revealing that construction on a total of 133,710 homes was started in the 12-month period ending March 31st – just over half of its annual 240,000 target – Shelter is demanding that more investment in affordable homes is required.
Krista Blair, regional campaign officer for the charity, states that just 1,510 affordable properties have been built in the east Midlands over the past 12 months.
However, with more than 136,500 households on council housing waiting lists in the area – in addition to rising repossession and unemployment rates – Shelter claims that some 8,000 affordable homes needed to be provided in the region each year.
And although those with jobs in housing may be interested to hear that the government has promised to plough more than £8 billion into the delivery of 185,000 affordable properties, Ms Blair claims quicker action is needed.
"The money is already there, but we now need ministers to accelerate spending immediately and begin reversing the damaging decline in housebuilding," she states.
Meanwhile, former Shelter chief executive claimed in April that the Conservatives have rightly recognised that the current housing crisis has come from a "systemic failure" to build enough homes.
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