South Norfolk council has unveiled research into the key-worker housing crisis after getting the go-ahead for stock transfer.
The council is asking businesses and organisations whether a lack of key-worker housing has meant they struggled to recruit staff.

It hopes to use the research to lobby the regional housing board for more funding.

Imogen Isern, the council's enabling officer, said: "We are trying to come up with really inventive ways of bringing money into the area.

"A lot of the money is going to be going on the Thames Gateway and into Cambridgeshire. We are part of that region and we need to publicise that we have a problem. Local people just can't afford to be in the area."

On 31 July, tenants voted by a majority of 68% on a turnout of 77.5% to transfer the council's 4300 homes to a new association, South Norfolk Housing Partnership.

The £700,000 deficit in the authority's housing revenue account was set to rocket to £1m unless it transferred the homes.

South Norfolk Housing Partnership is looking for around £50m of funding from banks.

It will advertise for a £75,000 chief executive next week.

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Housing Today