Housing need ‘is at crisis point’

Housing need ‘is at crisis point’

The Senator said he has never had to turn down so many applications from businesses for essential employees as the economy booms. He said the applications are being made by existing businesses applying to expand or coming from new ones that want to relocate to Jersey. ‘I am turning down Js (essential employee licences) like you have never seen before. The numbers are way up in the first six months of this year as compared to last year,’ he said. He said in one recent unsuccessful case that a business which wanted to create 150 new jobs was asking for nearly a third of them to be for unqualified people. Meanwhile, Senator Le Main said that the States will also have to ‘override’ the parishes to find development sites to meet an urgent demand for sheltered accommodation.

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