People seeking to get on the housing ladder through
shared ownership may be allowed to increase the proportion of the home they own
in smaller steps than currently allowed, the housing secretary, Robert Jenrick,
has announced. Instead of increasing equity in 10% chunks, people who share the
ownership of their home with a housing association could buy as little as 1% a
time, in what the government described as an effort to make home ownership more
accessible to low-income groups and to “level up” the country. Labour
criticised it as “tinkering” and said it did not tackle the lack of new
affordable housing. Read more on the Guardian website.
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