Gordon Brown Council House Plan

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There will be two major upsides to this development program.
The first of course will be the fact that it will be generating lots of contracts within the construction industry.
The second will be the fact that there will be plenty of council houses available on a nationwide basis for people in need.

Gordon Brown Council House Plan

The biggest council house building programme for decades was ordered by Gordon Brown yesterday as he urged town halls to rescue the construction industry and help to kick-start the economy.
Treasury rules that have stopped local authorities from building social housing should be relaxed to allow councils to borrow more money and to keep the proceeds from rents and sales, the Prime Minister said.