Intermediate housing: one answer to the supply headache

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Greenwich Council is consulting on a new intermediate housing register to match people with suitable homes. Anthony Okereke explains more about it

What do you get when you combine a decade of austerity, low wages and a cost-of-living crisis, extortionate rents and soaring building costs? I’ll tell you what you get. A headache.

It’s a national tragedy that housing has become so inaccessible that key workers in our country are locked out of affording their own home. The average income, roughly £37,900, of a key worker in Greenwich can’t afford to buy here. Nurses, teachers, social workers struggling to buy or rent. That isn’t right, but it is the reality

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