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A range of affordable housing and low cost home ownership is delivered through Durham Villages Regeneration Company.  This Public Private Partnership is highly effective at developing homes for sale and rent or shared ownership.  This is currently reversing decaying housing stock in ex-mining villages.

CoDC receives the full market value for land sales and a 50 per cent share of profits when the properties have sold.  Receipts subsidise social housing and community projects and £100 million of gains is improving existing Council services and developing new facilities to meet local priorities identified in consultation with communities.