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Bromsgrove Mini Houses
When rents for flats reach Ј10 a week the need for affordable housing for first time home buyers becomes imperative.
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It might be short on space but it's a new, bright and clean roof over your head. Starter homes under construction on an estate at Bromsgrove. Reporter Peter Green is concerned that it's 'pygmy style living' but with space and money at a premium it may be the only way forward.
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