Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced the allocation of more than £71m to help families trapped in half-empty and abandoned streets in the Midlands and the north of England as a result of the now aborted Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder programme.
A total of 13 projects in the worst-hit areas – Merseyside, East Lancashire, North Staffordshire, Hull and Teesside – will receive a cash injection to help their local communities.
These areas originally bid for a share of a £30m fund that they would then match – but the minister said an extra £5.5m had been added to ensure that every street or block with more than half its properties lying vacant would benefit.
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