Affordable housing body’s work questioned

THE future of a government body set up to manage the affordable homes market must be seriously questioned as its function is no longer valid, according to Labour’s housing spokesman.

Ciarán Lynch, questioned what the work of the Affordable Homes Partnership (AHP) is, now that the scheme is no longer being given state funding to acquire properties.

Mr Lynch said the affordable homes scheme had left many local authorities with unsaleable properties on their hands and advocated a new rent-to- buy scheme in favour of the Government’s leasing scheme.