Autumn Budget Update - Housing

·         100% council tax premium on empty properties.

·         Stamp duty abolished for first-time buyers for homes worth up to £300,000

·         £28m in three new housing pilot schemes – in the West Midlands, Manchester and Liverpool – to halve rough-sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it by 2027.

·         £44bn of capital funding to help build 300,000 homes annually by mid-2020s.

·         New money for home builders fund.

·         £630m ‘small sites fund’.

·         £8bn of financial guarantees to support private housebuilding.

·         £2.7bn housing infrastructure fund.

·         £1.1bn for new urban regeneration.

·         £34m to train construction workers.

·         A review to be chaired by Oliver Letwin to look at ways to speed up planning permission.

·         Five new garden towns.

·         One million new homes on the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford corridor by 2050.

Read more on the Guardian website.