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Housing boost for key workers and first time buyers

Published: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:32:21

A major package of new measures to support key workers and other first time buyers into affordable homeownership, was announced by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Housing Minister Caroline Flint on 8 April 2008.

New cash grants of £1,500 will be offered to buyers who take up a shared equity loan under the Government's Open Market Homebuy scheme (OMHB); whilst to help increase long term housing supply, the Government is confirming the locations of surplus public sector land sites that will provide 30,000 new homes, many of which will be affordable.
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