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Alliance amendment to affordable housing crisis motion

12.56.15pm BST (GMT +0100) Mon 21st May 2007

The Alliance Party has placed an amendment to the Assembly motion today on the affordable housing crisis:

That this Assembly expresses serious concerns about the affordable housing crisis, and calls upon the Minister for Social Development to co-ordinate urgently with the Housing Executive, Housing Associations, and all other relevant bodies to release and set aside land for new build projects, "to consider increasing the put-back rate on existing redevelopment

areas"(Alliance Amendment), and to report back to this Assembly with a strategy and timescale which is finalized.

Alliance Speakers: Naomi Long MLA and Anna Lo MLA

ENDS

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