It is not first time buyers who Sunak wants to woo with a reheated Help to Buy
The last thing a young person trying to get on the housing ladder needs is another artificial boost to house prices.
“[Help to Buy]’s main impact was in pushing up the price of housing, kicking away the ladder that middle income households were climbing and enriching the directors and executives of the big property developers.”
That was the assessment of Vince Cable, business secretary in the government that introduced it when he was interviewed for a BBC documentary e…
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