Housing associations don’t need UK guarantee
It’s a classic moral panic for the UK broadsheet newspapers. ‘Government housing policy fails’ scream the headlines. ‘Paltry take-up for social housing aid’.
We’ve seen it all before, with Funding for Lending, the Infrastructure Guarantee and other schemes.
The chancellor announces an eye-catching initiative to stimulate some sector with a big cash sum. A few months later, people start to notice hardly anyone has taken up the help. Questions fly and ...Already a subscriber? Login