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NI to improve social housing
27/11/2007
Solicitors in Belfast could see more people on lower incomes able to get onto the property ladder in Northern Ireland if the Assembly's ministers learn lessons on social housing from the rest of Britain.
Northern Ireland's social development minister, Margaret Ritchie, is consulting with the UK housing minister, Yvette Cooper, on how to address the lack of affordable housing in Britain and Northern Ireland.
Currently solicitors are seeing very few people on lower wages able to afford homes in Northern Ireland, with Belfast proving one of the most expensive areas.
According to the Belfast Telegraph, there is presently a 63 per cent shortfall in the funding needed to provide adequate social housing in Northern Ireland.
Under the Assembly's Draft Investment Strategy, the social development minister will try to ensure that some social housing 'starts' will take place next in the province.
"There is a massive shortfall in what I have been allocated in the present draft Investment Strategy to meet housing need," Ms Ritchie said.
"We desperately need an injection of capital into social and affordable housing. I will leave no stone unturned in my search for solutions."
Ms Ritchie said that learning strategies from other areas affected by high house prices, such as London, could help in the province.
"It is clear that Northern Ireland is not unique in struggling to meet the challenge created by the housing boom," she explained. "Indeed we are relative newcomers to the problem when compared against other regions elsewhere and we can learn from their experience."
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Northern Ireland's social development minister, Margaret Ritchie, is consulting with the UK housing minister, Yvette Cooper, on how to address the lack of affordable housing in Britain and Northern Ireland.
Currently solicitors are seeing very few people on lower wages able to afford homes in Northern Ireland, with Belfast proving one of the most expensive areas.
According to the Belfast Telegraph, there is presently a 63 per cent shortfall in the funding needed to provide adequate social housing in Northern Ireland.
Under the Assembly's Draft Investment Strategy, the social development minister will try to ensure that some social housing 'starts' will take place next in the province.
"There is a massive shortfall in what I have been allocated in the present draft Investment Strategy to meet housing need," Ms Ritchie said.
"We desperately need an injection of capital into social and affordable housing. I will leave no stone unturned in my search for solutions."
Ms Ritchie said that learning strategies from other areas affected by high house prices, such as London, could help in the province.
"It is clear that Northern Ireland is not unique in struggling to meet the challenge created by the housing boom," she explained. "Indeed we are relative newcomers to the problem when compared against other regions elsewhere and we can learn from their experience."
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