Pause on moves to repossess homes

A moratorium on home repossessions is among the recommendations due to be published by a cross-party Housing Committee.

Struggling mortgage owners will be protected by a pause on all repossessions until the government implements proposals to help address the housing crisis, while the committee has also set a target of providing 50,000 social housing units by 2020.

These homes would be either built or bought and would not included private properties rented by those in receipt of payments such as HAP.