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Build to rent? PWLB changes? Leveraging LGR? How councils can ramp up housebuilding

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Andy Burnham’s government has pledged the biggest council housebuilding programme since the post-war period – but how will this be funded and what can be done to help councils get building?

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A variety of approaches have been suggested, and there has been some support announced already in the shape of the Social and Affordable Homes

Ministers may let local government reorganisation (LGR) slide and accept a “messy” path towards devolution in the wake of the latest reorganisation bombshell, according to Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) chief executive Jonathan Carr-West.

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