Sentences with phrase «to get on the housing ladder»

For the young couples struggling to get on the housing ladder because the chronic shortage of homes is forcing up prices.

One of its major themes will be support for first - time homebuyers, including a new initiative to help low income families get on the housing ladder.

Housebuilders will celebrate the extra demand created by Osborne's Help to Buy scheme, having won the argument that the little guy needs help getting on the housing ladder.

The strategy, published today, includes measures to help first time buyers get on the housing ladder through a government mortgage indemnity scheme, which is something that the Association has been calling for.

It is outrageous that successful young people with good jobs and prospects can not get themselves on the housing ladder via their own hard toil.

Day - to - day costs of living, worries of getting on the housing ladder, and fewer jobs are important - these are all issues that young people in Europe can relate to, and Western governments know these are not easily - resolved problems.

Government must examine and encourage ways to help first - time buyers get on the housing ladder through, for example, some kind of mortgage indemnity guarantee scheme, or through a government - backed savings scheme for first - time buyers.»

Chancellor George Osborne has announced plans to extend shared - equity schemes to help people get on the housing ladder and plans to encourage more «affordable» homes to be built.

The report recommends various measures to help close the achievement gap, including: more investment in early years education; ensuring all schools have access to good examples of top quality teaching and leadership; good careers guidance for all pupils; extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder; and promoting and measuring character development, wellbeing and mental health in schools.

Those who are already on the housing ladder have seen the value of their asset increase markedly, while everyone else is finding it harder to get on the housing ladder in the first place.

Minister of state for housing Yvette Cooper warns the country can not ignore the need to build more houses, arguing it is unfair that first - time buyers can increasingly only get on the housing ladder with the help of wealthy parents.

They will ask why they remain in low - wage jobs, why their children still can't get on the housing ladder, why life remains insecure, and they will no longer have Europe to blame.

A vote to leave Europe will destroy young people's hopes of getting on the housing ladder... First - time buyers are better off in Europe and leaving would be a leap in the dark leaving young people worse off.

The report said a scheme like Help to Buy, which helps younger people get on the housing ladder, could help pensioners at the other end of their lives.

extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder

Last year's cut in stamp duty to help first - time buyers get on the housing ladder is likely to increase prices by at least the amount the reduction is intended to save, MPs said.

The generation behind them is saddled with debt and struggling to get on the housing ladder.

That one thing could make a massive difference to everyone who is trying to get on the housing ladder, help young families... drive down how much we need to fund working people to live with top ups.

Adam Sampson, Shelter's chief executive said: «With people already overstretching themselves just to get on the housing ladder, this rate rise will push many over their financial limit, leaving them facing mortgage arrears, repossession and even homelessness.

«If we don't do this it will only be people with rich parents to help them who can get on the housing ladder - that is not fair, it is not right.»

The market is recovering because the government is helping people to borrow the huge sums needed to get on the housing ladder, through Help To Buy and the overarching Funding for Lending scheme.

«I am not going to stand by while people's aspirations to get on the housing ladder are being trashed,» he explained.

In November 2011, a major new housing strategy was announced by the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, the aim of the strategy being to tackle the housing shortage, boost the economy, create jobs, and give people an opportunity to get on the housing ladder.

For instance it proposes that councils should give those leaving the armed forces in terms of housing allocation and schemes for shared ownership to get on the housing ladder.

«Getting on the housing ladder» may sound like an innocuous phrase, but it in fact refers to accessing the most desirable financial asset, capable of increasing our paper wealth many times more than moving job or investing in the stock market or government bonds.

You can make sure that people have a bigger stake in society — more generous pensions, easier to get on the housing ladder, more access to shares and savings over their life, perhaps a stake in the company that they work for.

As house prices rise, households are forced to take out larger mortgage loans to get on the housing ladder, boosting banks» profits and capital.

And the end result is that the very people your policy should be helping — young first time buyers - will find it even harder to get on the housing ladder.

Speaking in Harlow, where Labour took control of the council in last week's local election, Miliband said: «The reality now for people aspiring to get on is that they feel they are running up against a brick wall in terms of unemployment and getting on the housing ladder.»

«Mortgage finance availability is still the biggest obstacle to new homes being built and people being able to get on the housing ladder.

Labour MPs and others have ridiculed one of George Osborne's key Budget announcements, after the chancellor said that anyone under 40 would be able to open a «lifetime ISA» to help them get on the housing ladder.

Hammond said he wanted «to take action today to help young people who are saving to own a home» and to «send a message to the next generation that getting on the housing ladder is not just a dream of your parents» past but a reality for your future».

Their children, on the other hand, are finding it harder than ever to get on the housing ladder, find a secure job and settle down with a family.

We found common cause with the Co-operative Group and their Inspiring Young People initiative; a key focus of which is pressing for votes at 16 to boost the political capital of a generation that will face unprecedented future challenges, from job insecurity and employment to getting on the housing ladder, not to mention paying for the costs of aging population and climate change.

Only Conservatives will stand up for the hard - working people who want to get on the housing ladder and own a home of their own.»

The ability of young people to get on the housing ladder has almost nothing to do with whether or not we are members of the EU.

Labour's Housing Minister now attacks the aspiration of getting on the housing ladder, proving how out of touch Gordon Brown's party has become.

«The Tories» alluring promise of stamp duty and inheritance tax cuts has resonated with a public tired of overbearing taxation and weary of not being able to get on the housing ladder.

These are systems designed to help you get on the housing ladder; they can take a variety of forms from money to cover outlay costs, to silent 0 % mortgages payable after you've paid your principal mortgage off.

If you're desperate to get on the housing ladder, and you're absolutely certain that you can afford the mortgage, go for it.

They wanted to get on the housing ladder and could afford little more.

First time buyers are struggling to get on the housing ladder, existing homeowners are struggling to move or downsize, and all the while the public purse is missing out on stamp duty income.

«As an organization BDAR will be focussing on affordable housing and helping first - time buyers understand how to get on the housing ladder.

Families that work hard to get on the housing ladder and begin building equity can, in the long run, be more self - reliant that those who don't take that step.

As more people struggle to get on the housing ladder, a new word has been coined: «mambo» — to live with your mum.

While the thought of living with our parents until our mid-thirties may fill many of us with horror, it's becoming a stark reality for young people struggling to get on the housing ladder.