the merseyside market renewal pathfinder is helping to fund a scheme to help vulnerable young people find work and move into their own homes.
A year-long, £600,000 pilot scheme has been set up in the Wirral area and will be rolled out across the whole market renewal area if successful.

The Housing and Employment Link Project, earmarked for approval by Wirral councillors on Wednesday, will help 17 young people take on low-paid apprenticeship work and move into their own homes.

Market renewal pathfinder New Heartlands, Wirral council and the ODPM's Neighbourhood Renewal Fund will subsidise their rent. This will enable them to live independently as they train until their income increases. Their rent will then rise incrementally in line with pay.

n New Heartlands has handed its bid for a share of the £500m market renewal funding pot into ministers.

Its spending plans are expected to be announced early next year and Liverpool council's cabinet member for housing, Flo Clucas, has hinted they might include a target for the city's population growth.

Numbers in the city peaked at 850,000 in the 1930s but have now dwindled to 439,000.

Clucas said: "We have ambitious targets for growth."

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Housing Today