The Housing White Paper Revealed

Here is a section by section guide to the document.

·         PRS tenancies - “ensure more longer-term tenancies are available in private rented schemes”.

·         Affordable rent - a reaffirmed commitment to build more affordable homes

·         Planning - councils will be “expected to use land more efficiently” by building homes at higher density

·         Ownership – the aim is for 200,000 more home owners by the end of the parliament and the introduction of the Lifetime ISA will help achieve that

·         Empty Homes - local authorities have the power to tackle empty homes as they earn the same financial reward through the New Homes Bonus as building a new one

·         Leaseholders - The White Paper sets out that there will be a consultation on a range of measures to “tackle all unfair and unreasonable abuses of leasehold.”

·         Green belt back down - no change to the policy which only allows building on the green belt in exceptional circumstances.

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