Taxpayers To Boost More Onto Housing Ladder

Government describe its housing initiative as “radical and unashamedly ambitious”, and that taxpayers will give 100,000 more people a leg up onto the housing ladder.
Taxpayers To Boost More Onto Housing Ladder
According to statistics released by the Halifax House Price Index report in February 2011, house prices in Penzance increased by 193 percent over ten years, meaning average prices in the Cornish coastal town have jumped from £70,000 at the end of 2000 to £205,532 in 2011. That compares with the UK average of 91 percent increase in the same period. Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images
Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
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Taxpayers To Boost More Onto Housing Ladder
Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
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