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Don’t believe the government’s hot air about ‘creating housing’ has anything to do with solving homelessness — it’s all to boost the profits of the housebuilding corporations that offer them donations and jobs, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Taylor Wimpey

TOP housebuilding firm Taylor Wimpey increased its Conservative links, doubling the number of Tories on its board just as the government announced a new scheme that will pump up housebuilders’ profits.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak wants the government to support mortgages on properties worth up to £600,000 in a new version of a Tory scheme that has pushed up house prices, enriched building firms, but done nothing to help homelessness.

Sunak’s Mortgage Guarantee is a new version of Help to Buy, the mortgage support scheme introduced by George Osborne in 2013.

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