housing
Balls: £6bn extra should be invested to build 100,000 more affordable homes
Labour leadership candidate Ed Balls will call for an additional £6 billion to be invested to build 100,000 more affordable homes, arguing that the government should use half of the £12bn windfall to the public finances in recent months to fund the rapid expansion in house building.
South East to gain most from Coalition’s Home Bonus scheme
Under the Coalition's new Home Bonus Scheme it has been found that London and the North West would lose £125m and £65m respectively, whilst the South East would gain £108m and the Eastern region £71m.
Coalition home bonus scheme is a con
The government's 'New Homes Bonus' scheme, which will match the council tax raised on each new house for six years, was slammed by shadow housing minister John Healey for being an expensive con, with the money coming mostly from existing local authority support grants - as revealed in a pre-election Tory green paper.
David Cameron should listen to his own advice
The BBC’s Chief Political Correspondent, Laura Kuenssberg, yesterday tweeted remarks made by David Cameron about the need for more discussion […]
Miliband’s Mansion Tax: safe as houses
David Miliband's mansion tax has been attacked by the Daily Mail. But a £1 million tax, as proposed last year by Vince Cable, enjoyed significant public support.
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.