Scrapping of HIPs masks Tory u-turn on stamp duty
There has been an almost deafening silence from Grant Shapps and Eric Pickles over the dropping of the Tory manifesto pledge to raise the stamp duty threshold.
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Plans to build 10,000 new council homes “very welcome”
Housing experts have welcomed John Healey’s announcement today of a “radical new council housing deal”.
Budget 2010: Housing investment must continue
Despite the £38bn spent on decent homes which improved hundreds of thousands of council homes, many of the worst estates continue to be untackled.
Revealed: Hidden agenda behind Express attack on housing minister
Today’s Daily Express front page criticising Housing Minister John Healey is yet another example of the Express at its hypocritical, biased worst.
The Express are wrong on housing benefit dependency
The Express reports that housing benefit payments will rise this year. The rise is due to the recession and rents, not a “culture of benefits dependency”.
Cameron’s “green housing” plan unpicked
The apparent depiction by Cameron of the £6,500 loan as a grant is either a serious misunderstanding or disingenuous politics; this is a debt, is not a grant.
Tory “green housing” plans lack ambition
The Tory plans, unveiled today, do not go far enough to tackle the housing problems in our country.
Zero carbon homes by 2016 as green gloves come off
Labour and Conservative made green announcements today. Low carbon homes will be compulsory by 2016. But George Osborne’s plans faced criticism.
Grant Shapps misses the point on social housing
Grant Shapps’ plans to give social tenants nationwide mobility are good. But they miss the crucial point – the lack of mobility is a symptom and not a cause.
Housing Minister: Enough spare land “to build 300,000 new homes”
Housing Minister John Healy says there is enough spare public land to build 300,000 new homes in England.