{"id":110025,"date":"2022-02-23T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110025"},"modified":"2022-02-23T17:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T22:31:15","slug":"churches-unite-to-build-new-affordable-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110025","title":{"rendered":"Churches unite to build new affordable homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North East Churches Acting Together (NECAT) \u2013 with members including the Church of England, Roman Catholic, Baptist, URC and Methodist churches as well as independent churches \u2013 has commissioned consultants to advise on potential sites for affordable housing development. <\/p>\n<p>Schemes being considered include supported accommodation for groups including older people and people with learning disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after the group held two conferences on housing and homelessness in the region in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Revd Joanne Thorns, a Church of England priest and Regional Officer for NECAT, has been working with Chris Beales, a member of the Church of England\u2019s Housing Executive Team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that in comparison to London and other areas, house prices are not as high here in the North East,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-and-news\/stories-blogs-and-features\/churches-unite-build-new-affordable-homes\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WHy0Cg9tjE\">https:\/\/t.co\/WHy0Cg9tjE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CofE Network of Distinctive Deacons (CENDD) (@WardenGill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WardenGill\/status\/1496431963774857225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North East Churches Acting Together (NECAT) \u2013 with members including the Church of England, Roman Catholic, Baptist, URC and Methodist churches as well as independent churches \u2013 has commissioned consultants to advise on potential sites for affordable housing development. Schemes<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110025\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,199,600,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecumenical-relations","category-england-uk","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110027,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110025\/revisions\/110027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}