Friday, 25 May 2012

Restrictions to affordable rent regime revealed

28/01/2011 | By Carl Brown

Housing associations have expressed alarm at the government’s plans for its affordable rent regime after a senior civil servant revealed that use of the new tenure will be restricted.

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