Threshold: Rent relief raise 'will have no impact'

Threshold, the national housing organisation, has welcomed the Budget provision to deliver 9,000 social housing units in 2008.

Bob Jordan, national director, said: "Now that the financial commitment has been made at central Government level, local authorities must step up to the plate and ensure that delivery is accelerated over the next 12 months. Otherwise, this budgetary measure will be of little real value."