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£866 million investment to help unlock potential 200,000 new homes

Source: http://www.govopps.co.uk

Up to 200,000 new homes are set to get off the ground as government confirms £866 million investment in local housing projects today (1 February 2018).Housing Secretary Sajid Javid MP and Chancellor Philip Hammond MP announced that 133 council-led projects across the country will receive funding to support local work that will make housing developments viable and get much-needed homes built quicker.With the government committed to building 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s, this first wave of funding from the £5 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund is part of a comprehensive programme to fix the broken housing market.