that people can live in. secondly i would give local councils the freedom to borrow and invest in building you homes. and third thing i would do. all of these empty flats we see built for one person, i think they should be converted into the homes that people need for young families like yours. the house serving industry did not serve us well in the country. when it happened the building firms did not have enough capital to survive and so many went under. and yet there is a pent up demand in our country. there are 1 million more homeowners than there were over 10 years ago. more people are buying hoamtion. homes. we have stamp duty relief for first time buyers. shared equity may be considered. that s a chance to buy part of your house and it is a more popular way to do things. we are helping to finance that and work with the societies and banks.
one thing we shouldn t do is putting vat on building new homes. that would lift the price of new homes higher out of people like anna s reach. that would be a big, big mistake. nick clegg? i talked about how we need to convert empty properties. i talked about how we need to give counselors the freedom to build new homes. i certainly see it in lots of our great city centers which are designed for one person. the private property developersthat put up these towers and they should be made available. i i know council houses were not fashionable and i was glad to see the council has started classes for the first time. they may not help you and your family, but the more housing
it is so people are actually building houses. if we scrap the top down targets that makes communities so angry and reward councils that build homes for families like yours. nick clegg? this is one of the things that along with immigration i hear about more than anything else. the lack of affordable housing. but there are 1.8 million families, that s 5 million people who are on the waisting list. what do you do about it? i would do three things. there are hundreds of thousands of empty properties in our community boarded up and no doubt many in birnling ham too. for a relatively modest amount of money you can con convert into homes people live in. it is just to the right and people either can t afford it, like you, anna. we have a plan to convert 250,000 empty homes into homes
getting facility in the bank to lend again. we signed agreements that allowed them to borrow. using the property and giving local authorities the power to build and making sure the owing association had the power to build. i want an owner occupied majority and i want to increase home ownership and with the measures we are taking. two things we shouldn t do and one thing we hospital do. first, we should build more homes that are par rent and part mortgage. i have seen this, but it is a chance to get a foot on the housing ladder. they can increase the mortgage and enduce the rent. and rewarding responsibility. people who live in housing association homes with a record of good behavior, give them a stake in the house so when they move they have capital to move up the housing ladder.