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<p>Government has set out a long term and comprehensive strategy to make the housing
market work for everyone; including to release more land for homes where people want
to live; build the homes we need faster; get more people building more of the kind
of homes people want; as well as support people who need help now</p><p>We have acted
to make our housing market work better, including:</p><ul><li>planning reforms to
ensure more land is available for housing and maximise the potential of our cities
and towns to build new homes whilst protecting the Green Belt;</li><li>launching Homes
England, bringing together money, expertise, planning and compulsory purchase powers;</li><li>lifting
Housing Revenue Account borrowing caps so local authorities can deliver a new generation
of council housing;</li><li>Providing more than £15 billion of new financial support
over the next five years, taking total financial support to at least £44 billion to
2022/2023, which will boost the delivery of housing and use funds flexibly to unblock
the barriers to more housebuilding;</li><li>publishing a Green Paper which sets out
a new deal for social housing in England;</li><li>measures to rebalance the relationship
between tenants and landlords to deliver a fairer, good quality and more affordable
private rented sector;</li><li>and reforms to make sure the leasehold system in England
is fair and transparent to the consumer.</li></ul><p>Taken together, our reforms will
help create, fund and drive a fairer housing market that delivers 300,000 homes a
year on average by the mid-2020s.</p>
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