Higher-income households benefited most from Help to Buy, thinktank finds

Analysis by IFS shows George Osborne’s mortgage schemes launched in 2013 had little effect on social mobility Higher-income households were the biggest beneficiaries of George Osborne’s Help to Buy mortgage schemes , introduced in the 2010s, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) thinktank. Launched by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government in 2013, Help to Buy involved two separate schemes aimed at making home ownership more achievable in a period of rapid house price growth. Continue reading...

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