The Housing Corporation has slashed its innovation and good practice fund by £2m.

The fund, which supports pioneering research projects and community initiatives, will be £8.45m for 2004/5. In the previous year, the fund was worth £10.45m.

This year’s IGP fund will help finance 90 housing-related projects including 46 community training and enabling initiatives.

They range from £25,000 for a London-wide strategy to deal with antisocial behaviour through to £138,000 to set up a neighbourhood regeneration company in the Merseyside housing market renewal pathfinder area.

All the projects are intended to give residents a greater say in managing their neighbourhoods.

The IGP programme was launched in 1995 and has spent £75m to fund more than 2000 projects to date.

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Housing Today