Historic Housing and Planning Bill will transform generation rent into generation buy >New Housing and Planning Bill has been introduced to Parliament by the government.
New Housing and Planning Bill has been introduced to Parliament by the government. The government’s new Housing and Planning Bill marks the start of a national crusade to transform generation rent into generation buy, Housing Minister Brandon Lewis announced yesterday (13 October 2015). The minister said today’s publication sent a clear signal that the government would keep the country building while giving hard-working families every opportunity to unlock the door to home ownership. Housing Minister Brandon Lewis said: As a one nation government we’re determined that anybody who works hard and aspires to own their own home has the opportunity to do so. More than 230,000 households have been helped into homeownership through government-backed schemes since 2010, while our extension to the Right to Buy will see a further 1.3 million housing association tenants given the opportunity to own their own home. And the Housing Bill will allow us go e...