The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has reinforced the government’s commitment to ‘get Britain building again’ as she delivered her Spring Statement today.
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What the new government should do to support first-time buyers
During the recent general election campaign, one key point of difference in the parties’ housing policies was that the Conservative Party pledged to introduce a new Help to Buy scheme, whereas Labour proposed alternative housing policies, largely focused on social rent.
Now elected, Labour is already pushing ahead with housing initiatives including greater powers and flexibilities in the Affordable Homes Programme, increased local authority funding for housing (to be announced in the next Budget) and changes to the Right to Buy.
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