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Hastings Commons: 'Why I spent £85k to help fix housing crisis'

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Hastings is one of the most deprived in England with a housing shortage so severe the council was told last year it might go bankrupt.

Community group was awarded 1.5 m by the council to create 12 flats in an abandoned publishing house.

Dr Jess Steele put in 85,000 of her own money to help fix the town's housing crisis.

The money to install affordable flats at the Observer Building was granted to Hastings Commons by the council in October .

The funding is for 12 affordable homes, 8 of which will be used to house families currently in temporary accommodation.

The building was home to a printing company that used to employ hundreds of local people until it closed in the 1980s .

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