The Housing Corporation is dropping the restrictive rules governing deputy prime minister John Precott's, key worker housing scheme, after continued criticism and the admission last month in the House of Commons that it had failed to attract enough policeman, teachers and nurses.
The government disclosed only 615 out of 1,393 houses built for sale to key workers had been sold, despite offers of loans or low-cost "part-buy, part-rent" arrangements. In contrast, there was strong demand for the 1,424 properties built for rent, with 1,201 taken up. The Housing Corporation will now change its focus to include a wider group of people in society although it also says it remains committed to key worker scheme and the targets set within it until 2010. Anyone living in social housing or entered on a waiting list for social housing will be eligible to buy unsold flats and h...
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