{"id":88151,"date":"2018-05-14T16:43:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T09:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/social-housing-funding-system-is-nuts-says-top-property-developer\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T10:03:21","slug":"social-housing-funding-system-is-nuts-says-top-property-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/social-housing-funding-system-is-nuts-says-top-property-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"Social housing funding system is 'nuts', says top property developer"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRoger Madelin calls for higher corporation tax and says reliance on private developers to pay for affordable homes is stupidOne of the country\u2019s top property developers has described the UK\u2019s system of funding social housing as \u201cnuts\u201d and called for higher taxes to speed up building.Roger Madelin, a member of the executive committee at British Land, told the Guardian the decades-old system of getting private developers to pay for affordable homes was \u201ca stupid way of meeting this social need\u201d and that the government should directly fund them. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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