{"id":112134,"date":"2019-11-05T07:01:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tories-broke-pledge-on-starter-homes-in-2015-manifesto-report-says\/"},"modified":"2019-11-05T07:25:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T00:25:03","slug":"tories-broke-pledge-on-starter-homes-in-2015-manifesto-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tories-broke-pledge-on-starter-homes-in-2015-manifesto-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Tories broke pledge on &#039;starter homes&#039; in 2015 manifesto, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nSpending watchdog finds government failed to build any of 200,000 homes promisedSuccessive Conservative governments have failed to deliver a single new \u201cstarter home\u201d despite promising to build 200,000 by 2020, Whitehall\u2019s spending watchdog has found.The party\u2019s 2015 manifesto committed to building the homes across England to be sold exclusively to first-time buyers under the age of 40, to help young people take their first step on the property ladder. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/nov\/05\/tories-broke-pledge-on-starter-homes-in-2015-manifesto-report-says\" target=\"_blank\">Tories broke pledge on &#8216;starter homes&#8217; in 2015 manifesto, report says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Spending watchdog finds government failed to build any of 200,000 homes promisedSuccessive Conservative governments have&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-taC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":112682,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/revolutionary-and-eminently-doable-our-critic-on-labours-housing-policy\/","url_meta":{"origin":112134,"position":0},"title":"Revolutionary and eminently doable: our critic on Labour&#039;s housing policy","date":"November 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s proposals treat housing as a means of providing shelter and building community \u2013 rather than as a way to extract rent and accumulate capital, which the Tories seem to favour\u2018A million new homes over the next five years!\u201d The Conservative party\u2019s manifesto pledge was launched with the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":143175,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tories-accused-of-ditching-manifesto-pledge-to-remove-ground-rents\/","url_meta":{"origin":112134,"position":1},"title":"Tories accused of ditching manifesto pledge to remove ground rents","date":"March 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Michael Gove is losing his battle to reform current leaseholds, Sunday Times reportsThe Conservatives have been accused of ditching their manifesto pledge to reduce ground rents to zero, after reports that Michael Gove is losing his battle to reform current leaseholds.Gove, the levelling-up secretary, has been overseeing plans to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":55323,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tories-would-fund-social-care-with-value-of-elderly-patients-homes\/","url_meta":{"origin":112134,"position":2},"title":"Tories would fund social care with value of elderly patients&#039;  homes","date":"May 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Under Conservative manifesto proposals, homes of dementia patients, among others, would become means-testable assets \u201cMy Dad has the best care. 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