Ernment Procurement Card (GPC) - Corporate. Homeless people die 30 years younger, study suggests. 21 December 2011Last updated at 01:20 The study said the average life expectancy of a homeless person is 47-years-old Homeless people in England die 30 years younger than the national average, research has suggested. The report for the charity Crisis found an average homeless person has a life expectancy of 47, compared with 77 for the rest of the population.
Drug and alcohol abuse account for a third of all deaths among the homeless. The report comes as the government is set to announce that £20m will be spent to provide assistance to single people facing homelessness. The Sheffield University report said that while drug and alcohol abuse often lead to homelessness, being without a home exacerbates the problem. And while the overall average of death for men and women who were homeless was 47, the mean age of death for women was found to be even lower, at 43. General population Continue reading the main story “Start Quote End QuoteGrant Shapps Housing Minister Council co-ordination. Grant Shapps highlights support for struggling homeowners - Newsroom. Housing Minister Grant Shapps today reassured anxious homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages of the wide range of support available to help them keep their homes, and ensure that repossession remains the last resort.
Latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show the number of homes taken into possession to be largely unchanged, increasing by one per cent on the previous quarter to 9,200. In light of this, the Council of Mortgage Lenders expects the number of repossessions in 2011 to be lower than their original forecast of 40,000. The Minister made clear that just as the Government is providing help for people wanting to get on the property ladder, a range of support is also available to keep them in their homes and avoid the threat of repossession.
The Directgov website - www.direct.gov.uk/mortgages (external link) - has lots of free advice and information to homeowners struggling to keep up with mortgage payments and worried about the threat of losing their homes. BBC Rough Sleeping Grant Shapps MP Interview. Right To Buy 2011-1999503. Service personnel to move from frontline to front door | Society. When Terry Ferguson sealed the deal to buy his home less than a fortnight ago, he did not expect to be part of a national first. For Ferguson, a military policeman who had been struggling to get on the property ladder, it was about securing a stable home for him, his wife and two young sons. But the sale of the four-bedroom home near Telford in Shropshire is also notable for being the first in England since the government pledged that members of the armed forces would have priority in its £500m affordable home ownership scheme FirstBuy, which offers buyers a government and developer-backed equity loan.
As Ferguson explains, it can be tough for service personnel to buy a home, particularly because of overseas postings and frequent moves. "We move all the time so it's very hard to track us credit-wise. The homes we were looking at were out of my price range, but the scheme helped me raise my budget," he says. First-time buyers face scramble for FirstBuy loans | Money. Thousands of struggling first-time buyers are set to benefit from a government-backed scheme that will allow people to take out a mortgage for just 75% of the cost of the property, provided they can stump up a 5% deposit. But you could be forgiven for thinking this all sounds familiar, as this scheme appears very similar to one launched three years ago by Labour, except that it is, arguably, not as good.
George Osborne this week launched FirstBuy – the latest in a line of official schemes to help people on to the property ladder. He says "over 10,000" first-time buyers will be helped by the £250m scheme, which looks set to open for business in September, though it will only apply to newly built properties within specific developments. FirstBuy may be Osborne's firstborn when it comes to schemes designed to help wannabe homeowners, but it is very much "son of HomeBuy" – the name of Labour's similar programme, which is still in existence. But it is a loan, not a gift. FirstBuy. The Chancellor announced further investment to help people buy a new build home through a new equity loan product, Help to Buy, as part of the Budget on 20 March 2013.
Further information on home ownership schemes is available from the .gov.uk website. Potential buyers through Help to Buy should contact their local HomeBuy agent, details can be found on the Help to Buy website. Potential buyers should also read the Help to Buy Buyer’s Guide - PDF (304KB). Subject to the terms below, it is intended that Help to Buy will replace FirstBuy from 1 April 2013. What is the Help to Buy equity loan scheme? Help to Buy is an equity loan scheme that makes new build homes available to purchasers struggling to buy. Help to Buy is available in England from registered house builders and will run until 31 March 2016, or earlier if the funding is taken up.
The Help to Buy product will be available to eligible purchasers and will be paid directly to registered house builders. Key contacts. Home swap, house exchange, swap homes, mutual exchange, homeswap – Home Page.