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Conservative
For social tenants: England’s 1.3 million housing association tenants will be given the right to buy their social home at a discount. 18- to 21-year-olds will no longer be entitled to housing benefit.
For private renters: 10,000 homes to rent at below market price while occupiers save for a deposit. 18- to 21-year-olds will no longer be entitled to housing benefit.
For first-time buyers: Conservatives want to build 200,000 starter homes for first-time buyers under 40 that will be sold at a 20% discount. Help-to-buy Isas will be available for first-time buyers saving to buy a home.
For homeowners: Increasing the inheritance tax threshold to £1m will take most homes out of the tax after an owner’s death.
Anything else: Councils will be forced to sell expensive social homes.
Housebuilding target: We don’t know
How are they going to reach it: The Conservatives have not set a housebuilding target but want to build 200,000 starter homes for first-time buyers under 40 that will be sold at a 20% discount. The Tories also promise more garden cities, a £1bn brownfield regeneration fund, plans to unlock enough sites for 400,000 new homes and funding for a further 275,000 affordable homes by 2020. The Conservatives hope money raised from the right-to-buy scheme, as well as forcing councils to sell expensive social homes, will partly pay for the new homes.
Read the Conservative manifesto
Labour
For social tenants: The bedroom tax will be scrapped. Councils will be able to negotiate rent reductions for tenants receiving housing benefit.
For private renters: Three-year minimum tenancies will become standard for renters with rent increases will be capped at the rate of inflation and local first-time buyers prioritised for new housing. Rip-off letting agent fees will also be banned and a national register of private landlords will be set up. Privately rented homes will need to meet a minimum standard of energy efficiency.
For first-time buyers: First-time buyers will be given first choice on buying new homes. Stamp duty will be abolished for first-time buyers buying homes worth up to £300,000.
For homeowners: 1m interest-free loans will be available to improve household energy efficiency. A mansion tax will be levied on homes worth more than £2m.
Anything else: Developers with land and planning permission will be told to “use it or lose it” to prevent landbanking.
Housebuilding target: 200,000 homes a year by 2020
How are they going to reach it: A £5bn future homes fund from help-to-buy Isas, a new generation of garden cities and by prioritising capital investment in building more affordable homes. Housing benefit savings from social housing rent reductions will go towards building new affordable homes.
Liberal Democrats
For social tenants: The bedroom tax will be abolished.
For private renters: Landlords will be banned from letting poorly insulated homes. First-time renters under 30 would qualify for loans for their first tenancy deposit. “Family friendly” tenancies with limits to annual rent increases will also be introduced.
For first-time buyers: The Lib Dems want 30,000 rent-to-own homes built by 2020, in which renters would eventually own their home after 30 years.
For homeowners: A mansion tax will be levied on homes worth more than £2m. Newly insulated homes will get £100 off their council tax each year for 10 years.
Anything else: Councils will be given the freedom to abolish the right-to-buy.
Housebuilding target: 300,000 homes a year
How are they going to reach it: At least 10 new garden cities form the basis of the Liberal Democrats’ housebuilding target. Central government will also be able to directly commission new homes in areas where the market is failing to deliver them. A housing investment bank will provide capital for major developments.
Ukip
For social tenants: Prioritised social housing for local residents and restricting the right-to-buy to British nationals. The bedroom tax will be abolished and tenants will have the option to have their housing benefit paid directly to landlords
For private renters: Nothing
For first-time buyers: The help-to-buy scheme will be restricted to British nationals. Stamp duty will be axed for the first £250,000 of new homes on brownfield sites.
For homeowners: Mortgages will be able to be inherited after a homeowner’s death. Inheritance tax will be abolished.
Anything else: Abolishing the national planning policy framework to introduce stricter protection of the green belt. The social housing waiting list will be open only to people who have lived and worked in the UK for five years. The large-scale developments can be overturned by a referendum triggered by the signatures of 5% of electors.
Housebuilding target: We don’t know
How are they going to reach it: There’s no overall target, but Ukip’s “brownfield revolution” aims to see 1m new homes built on land that has previously been developed on. All proceeds from the right-to-buy, except essential costs, will go towards building more houses.
Green
For social tenants: The bedroom tax will be abolished and the right-to-buy discount will be scrapped. Affordable rents will be determined by local incomes rather than market rates.
For private renters: Rent caps will be introduced alongside and minimum five-year tenancies. A mandatory landlord licensing scheme will be introduced.
For first-time buyers: The help-to-buy scheme would be scrapped.
For homeowners: Introduce a “right-to-rent” so that owners in financial difficulty can, with the help of the council, rent their home rather than lose it. Higher council tax bands will be brought in for the most expensive homes.
Anything else: Tax breaks for landlords will be removed to discourage buy-to-let. Councils will also be made to treat all homeless people equally and end the practice of denying homeless people help when they have been deemed “intentionally homeless”. The shared accommodation rate – which determines how much single housing benefit recipients can claim – will be reviewed.
Housebuilding target: We don’t know
How are they going to reach it: The Greens have no overall target but do aim to build 500,000 social rented homes by 2020 through quadrupling affordable housing funding and allowing councils to borrow more money.
Read the Green party manifesto
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