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Empty homes week - Can you help?

This week is the 17th National Empty Homes Week. To mark the occasion Colne Housing Society is showcasing how it is working in partnership to bring empty homes back into use as affordable housing.

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Priced out of the housing market

A new report shows that only one third of younger working households in Essex can afford to buy a home even at the lowest 10% of local house prices.

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Spending review sees affordable homes budget cut by 60 percent

The shortfall in capital spending will mean ministers will be looking for some new social housing tenants to pay much higher rents.

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Key Communities is a unique partnership of seven like-minded, independent housing associations, with unrivalled expertise in the sector. Between them, the partners own and manage more than 20,000 homes, providing a diverse mix of affordable housing and other services.

Together, Key Communities is delivering a £143 million development programme in partnership with its own funders, the Housing Corporation, local authorities and private developers, building more than 1,200 new affordable homes every year. The lead partner, bpha, works across central, southern and eastern England and is an investment partner of the Housing Corporation. As a leading expert in key worker and intermediate tenure housing, bpha, through its Keyhomes East arm, is also a Government-appointed HomeBuy agent.