The housing scheme includes 25% affordable housing of which 15% will be shared equity and 10% for rent.
The scheme involves housing associations purchasing vacant or repossessed homes to fix up and then sell on the market at a discount.
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The affordable housing scheme at East Portlemouth was officially opened by Isobel Waterhouse on 12 December.
The five acres of land around the factory was part of the Pathfinder Project housing scheme.
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More than 2, 000 tenants took up the government's Right to Buy discount scheme for social housing in England during the last three months of 2012.
This housing scheme has been widely praised in the national media.
Meanwhile, Terry McLernon, who runs a successful table tennis club in Glasgow's Drumchapel housing scheme, has also been appointed MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours list.
The first cycle and building was in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where it has been adjudged the best slum housing scheme done in the country ever and the only one where people came voluntarily and still demand more.
The scheme is part of the wider regeneration of the neighbourhood under the government's Pathfinder Housing Market Renewal scheme.
The committee also heard from DSD officials on changes to the Housing Selection Scheme.
It was part of the housing renewal scheme, Renew North Staffordshire, which the government scrapped in 2011.
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If you would like information about whether your local council offers a similar scheme, contact the housing department.
Owners of empty homes in a Kent town could be forced to sell their properties as part of a council scheme to ease a housing shortage in the area.
Councils are grabbing an increasing share of rising land prices by bumping up the amount of social housing developers must build as part of a new scheme and hand over to the local housing association.
Make sure you refer to it as the Private Sector Leasing Scheme (PSLS) or Housing Association Leasing Schemes (HALS).
Almost all the residents on the road have left to move into new homes as part of the government's Housing Market Renewal Scheme.
Under the scheme, aimed at easing housing shortages, the government matches the council tax raised on each newly built house for six years.
The scheme, to help address housing needs and tackle climate change, is one of a number of environmentally-friendly new settlements to be built in England.
The homes plan is part of a scheme to find locations for new housing and businesses over the next 15 to 20 years.
Last week Hull's Gateway scheme, which aimed to demolish rundown housing in the city, came to a halt after central government withdrew its funding.
But while the level of fraud has increased overall, the scheme found that in the area of housing benefit, the value of overpayments has reduced.
The housing minister said that the scheme already existed in some local authorities, however ruled out the option to introduce this across the whole of Wales.
The scheme allows not-for-profit housing associations to buy homes from people struggling to pay their mortgage and then allows them to continue living there by paying "affordable rent".
Under a scheme of this sort, which some housing experts proposed in 2009, the long-term cost of a housing bailout would have been substantially smaller than its sticker price.
He said the SNP had accelerated capital spending on affordable housing, kickstarted a new generation of council housing and funded a shared equity scheme.
In 2007, the salaries of military personnel were raised on two occasions and in 2008 the government addressed the poor state of military housing with a building and mortgage scheme, wrote Mark Gay over at The Moscow News.
However, Duncan Forbes, chief executive of Bron Afon Community Housing in Torfaen, said the new scheme "makes scarcity worse".
Highland Council has proposed a new scheme which would allow it to resume building local authority housing.
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