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NOT a single “starter home” has been built in three years, despite the government having pledged to construct 200,000 of them, Labour revealed yesterday.
The party is challenging Chancellor Philip Hammond to use today’s Budget to improve its “abysmal” house-building record and ensure that homes promised by the government are built.
So-called starter homes can cost up to £450,000 and are available to first-time buyers. The scheme was first announced in December 2014.
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance