Call for funding changes for more homes to rent in UK

New UK housing minister Gavin Barwell is being urged by property industry commentators to support the building of more new homes to rent by relaxing the rules around public funding in the sector. The appeal has been launched in response to an independent report published this week by the Centre for Economic and Business Research and commissioned by the National Housing Federation which predicts that the UK economy could contract by £145 million in the next 10 years if the rate of growth in new ...