Are landlord incentives the answer to tenant insecurity?
Today’s Observer declares that the “home-owning democracy”, that elusive vision beloved of the Conservatives since Thatcher, is finished.
Ahead of next week’s Housing White Paper, Communities Secretary Sajid Javid says, “We understand people are living longer in private rented accommodation”, which is the closest the government has come to admitting that their policies to help first-time buyers can only go so far.