London’s Charedi community is due to gain around 40 million pounds of affordable new housing in Stamford Hill, North London, with the prospect of 20 million pounds more. The Agudas Israel Housing Association (AIHA) is due to open two 10 million pound developments in the next week.
Planning permission has been granted for two other projects and applications have been submitted for two more, funded by loans and grants, 50 per cent from the Housing Corporation.
A significant proportion of the Charedi community is facing housing problems. With large families and low incomes, many cannot afford market rents.
A delegation of senior Charedi figures, supported by the Board of Deputies and the London Jewish Forum, is due to meet the Greater London Authority’s head of housing and homelessness, Alan Benson, next week to appeal for help from the GLA and Mayor Ken Livingstone.
(Source: The JC)
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Let’s hope the families who really need to be rehoused are at the top of the list, not just those with the right connections.
Why don’t they move to Eretz Yisroel where they belong?? Housing is much cheaper there!
Interesting idea. I wonder if it would be possible for the Aguda to do the same thing in the USA as well. If the Aguda could open up affordable housing units/condos/developments in the NY/NJ Metro region, that would go a long way towards easing up the housing situation for a lot of young couples.
Baruch Hashem I know some families that were really desperate and got it before they knew it!!
Baruch Hashem, I know many families that moved to Eretz Yisroel and don’t have to depend on the goyim
Forty million pounds of what? Herring for Shabbos kiddush? It would not last more than three weeks :)))))))))))))))))))))