Starter homes: a £27bn raffle
The government wants to eliminate Generation Rent. I think they’re talking about the demographic group, rather than our organisation. They want to replace us with Generation Buy. How cute.
Sadly, their plans so far will do nothing to reverse the growth of renting and will exacerbate the rising level of inequality between people who own their homes and those who don’t.
The government’s flagship policy is Starter Homes. The scheme will help 200,000 private renter households into home ownership with a 20% discount on the market price of a new home. The trouble is, if you’re not in one of the lucky 200,000 – that’s 4 million – you won’t get a discount. You also won’t get to share £26.8bn of profits when you sell your starter home – read our analysis here.
