Mark Pawsey, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Rugby and Bulkington, has welcomed new figures showing that Help to Buy has helped 262 families to buy their own home in Rugby and Bulkington. Mark highlighted that only the Conservatives will keep helping local people onto the housing ladder and achieve the security of their own home.
Across the UK Help to Buy has now meant over 90,000 families have been able to buy their own home, with over 80 per cent of sales going to first-time buyers. This is creating a new generation of homeowners.
The Conservatives now want to go further over the next five years by:
• extending Help to Buy
• building 200,000 discounted Starter Homes for first-time buyers
• creating Help to Buy ISAs to help people save for a deposit
• keeping interest rates low so mortgages are affordable
• extending the Right to Buy to Housing Association tenants.
But all this will only be possible if we have a majority Conservative government. A vote for any other party in Rugby and Bulkington would make it more likely that Ed Miliband, propped up by the SNP, becomes Prime Minister putting our recovery at risk. Labour and the SNP have both attacked Help to Buy and Right to Buy. Ed Miliband wants to kill off the Help to Buy ISA before it has even begun and would wreck the economy, undermining house building and making it harder to buy a home.
Mark said:
“There is a clear choice at this election – a vote for the Conservatives, which will allow David Cameron and his strong team to keep on with a plan that is working and delivering home ownership and economic security for people in Rugby and Bulkington. Or a vote for any other party, which just makes it more likely that we get a weak Ed Miliband government, dependent for every vote on Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP.”
Mark continued:
“Conservative policies have meant 262 families have been able to buy their own home in Rugby and Bulkington since 2010 through Help to Buy. We now want to go further and extend Help to Buy, help people save for a deposit, build thousands of new homes for first-time buyers and extend the Right to Buy to tenants of Housing Associations.”
Mark concluded:
‘Labour, backed up by the SNP, would put all this at risk. They would risk our recovery, making it harder for people to get on the housing ladder. The only way to make sure more people can own a home of their own is to vote Conservative.’