More criticism has come of the government’s multi-faceted Help To Buy initiative, this time from campaigning housing charity Shelter.
The charity claims that over 65 per cent of the various Help To Buy incentive programmes push up demand without improving supply - with the inevitably consequence in a free market being that prices of homes become dearer and less affordable.
Shelter claims £28.7 billion of government funding during the course of this parliament will go to Help to Buy and associated programmes - while the remaining third of housing scheme funding, £16.05 billion, goes to improving supply by actually building homes.
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Does anyone think Help to Buy has been a success? Anyone?
Shelter jumping on another bandwagon? I don't believe it's not butter!
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