Housing Live - the Autumn Budget 2018 as it happened

Key Budget measures for housing:

• £500m in housing infrastructure fund to unlock a further 650,000 homes
• The next wave of strategic partnerships with nine housing associations which will deliver 13,000 homes
• British business bank guarantees for SME house builders
• ’Simplification’ of process to convert commercial properties to new homes
• Providing funding to empower 500 neighbourhoods to allocate homes to local people in perpetuity
• Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme extended two years to 2023 and limited to first time buyers
• Retrospective inclusion of first time buyers of shared ownership in the stamp duty relief