Securing Key Worker Housing through the Planning System

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMaking Housing More Affordable
Subtitle of host publicationThe Role of Intermediate Tenures
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages120-134
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9781405147149
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Mar 2011
Externally publishedYes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  3. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  4. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

  • Cambridge affordable housing policies
  • Economic success of Cambridge sub-region - priority areas in government's Sustainable Communities Plan (2003)
  • Employment and household growth - in Cambridge context
  • Household and employment growth - without equivalent growth in housing stock
  • Housing pressures in city - and key workers' problem extent
  • Increased affordability problems - households, moving away from centres of employment to find cheaper accommodation
  • Key worker housing and planning system - accessing new affordable housing in high-priced areas, like Cambridge
  • Local people, on low or modest incomes - unable to gain access to market housing, affordable and within reach of workplace
  • Securing key worker housing - through planning system
  • Social rented housing, meeting needs of - lower-income employed households

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