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Evening Standard
  • 7/10/2024
Affordable homes built in London 'with no one to take them' as housing associations battle soaring costs
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00:00Currently the section 106 system is kind of creaking at the seams and there is a lack
00:26of capacity from registered providers to take the number of affordable homes that are currently
00:31in planning. So we will be in an unusual position where developers will be building
00:36out affordable homes and there will be no one to take them.

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