Budget: Surely we need help to build not help to buy.

I have been wondering for years why the Government, this one and the last I suppose, are so concerned/involved/fuelling or whatever they are doing, to house prices.
Anyone care to explain?

I have lost track of what this government is doing as regards self build.

I was thinking exactly the same thing myself.

Well you could say that capitalists believe their raison d'etre is accumulating capital. The Conservative part of the government is certainly capitalist and it could be argued that the Blair government and the Brown one had picked up some capitalist habits.

There were suggestions in the Observer at the weekend about how to deal with the housing crisis which it sees as a human disaster and one was:

Make zero inflation a target. In the same way that targets are set for retail prices, it could be stated that it is desirable to stop house prices rising. In real terms they would slowly fall to affordable levels, and the heat would be taken out of speculation, but no one would be put into negative equity. Inflationary incentives like Help to Buy should be ended, and taxation should be used to deflate property bubbles."

I have heard, in the media, that it is proposed to give housing association tenants the right to buy.

I presume that, with the exception of those on co ownership schemes, this is not already the case.

A lot of social housing is now run by housing associations and this will only heighten the housing crisis for many. x