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Sale of hundreds of empty homes designed, but not used, for Commonwealth Games attacked as ‘absolute scandal’Hundreds of empty homes in Birmingham, originally designed as an athletes’ village for the Commonwealth Games, will be sold by the council at a loss of more than £300m to the taxpayer.Ayoub Khan, the independent MP for Perry Barr where the apartments are located, said it was an “absolute scandal” that the Labour-led authority had agreed last week to sell more than 700 homes to a private company in a deal forecast to result in a multimillion-pound loss. Continue reading…
Sale of hundreds of empty homes designed, but not used, for Commonwealth Games attacked as ‘absolute scandal’
Hundreds of empty homes in Birmingham, originally designed as an athletes’ village for the Commonwealth Games, will be sold by the council at a loss of more than £300m to the taxpayer.
Ayoub Khan, the independent MP for Perry Barr where the apartments are located, said it was an “absolute scandal” that the Labour-led authority had agreed last week to sell more than 700 homes to a private company in a deal forecast to result in a multimillion-pound loss.
