Local government was united in hailing the decision to scrap the borrowing cap on the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) which will empower district councils to build more homes to tackle the housing crisis.
Theresa May’s announcement, which follows years of lobbying by the District Councils’ Network (DCN), has spun round decades of fiscal thinking in a bold step to delivering a new generation of council housing through this vital policy change.
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