Lack of family homes undermines inner city plans

Unless developers build more homes suitable for growing families in the new mixed income housing developments, then hopes to improve schools and services for families already living in inner city neighbourhoods may not be realised, it says. Mixed income new communities comprise homes for rent, part-ownership, and outright sale. But the report argues that for these communities to achieve government set neighbourhood renewal goals and be sustainable in the longer term, they need to attract better-off families, not just childless households, and to give childless couples the opportunity to ...