We need to support people to fulfil their ambition of getting off benefits and relocating for work.
Communities will lose as they are hollowed out.
The direct effects of Help to Buy haven’t been too bad because they’ve been quite limited. The indirect effects, however, could be a totally different matter.
Claims that rent arrears are increasing as a result of housing benefit reforms are needless scaremongering.
The overwhelming theme of the Chancellor’s Mansion House speech was risk. As he describes it, the economy isn’t out of the woods yet.
We have already delivered over 445,000 new homes since April 2010
Conservatives are not the mouthpiece of the ‘already haves’; we are the party for all those who aspire to have, and to do, and to be.
A life on benefit should be for those in need – not a lifestyle choice.
New Towns? Building on the Green Belt? Different lending rules? The proposed solutions are as complex as the problem.
“Builders wouldn’t build unless buyers could buy,” he insisted from a housing development in Derbyshire. “We’ve fixed that.”
I would rather Boris was in Westminster North, Ilford North and, yes, Enfield North than Newark: we need him.
We need a property-owning democracy – not a rentocracy.
The history of these cities or new towns is replete with problems – and people tend not to like them.