£1 housing scheme in Stoke
Twenty council houses in Stoke-on-Trent have been sold for £1 each, and another 13 are still for sale. The scheme is to help regenerate rundown properties in the Portland Street area of Cobridge.
- Chris Halpin
First look for residents inside their £1 homes - full report
Today the first people to buy a house from Stoke-on-Trent City Council for just one pound, got to see inside their future homes.
Each new owner will take out a 30 thousand pound loan from the council to get the properties done up and pay it back in instalments.
And as Chris Halpin reports, the project now has international interest as far away as China.
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