Following Housing Minister Yvette Cooper’s announcement of the 32 percent increase in funding by 2010/11 compared to this year, the Regional Assembly, via the Regional Housing Board, will now put forward proposals for how the money is spent in Yorkshire and Humber.
The announcement came as an Assembly delegation, led by its Chair, Councillor Peter Box, Chair of the Regional Housing Board, Councillor Kris Hopkins and Chair of the Regional Planning Board, Councillor Steve Galloway, travelled to the House of Commons this week to give a personal briefing to Government ministers and other regional MPs over key housing issues facing the region. This was the culmination of a year long lobbying campaign to make sure that the region got a fair deal from Government in terms of housing funding.
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