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.

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
Freelance Reporter
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