article_snippet.sent: Chancellor said Chancellor wanted a 1980s-style property 'revolution' after years of declining home ownership.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Osborne said Mr Osborne wanted to reverse the 'steady' decline in first-time buyers getting a home.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Osborne told Sky News: 'I'm a great believer in a home-owning nation; a home-owning democracy where families can get on the housing ladder. '
article_snippet.sent: And the truth is that the number of first-time buyers has fallen steadily over recent years, and I want to reverse that, and I want to help families get on the housing ladder.'
article_snippet.sent: We have reformed the planning system so that We can build houses. '
article_snippet.sent: So We’re building the homes,
article_snippet.sent: I believe Britain should be a home-owning democracy, that’s the goal.'
article_snippet.sent: It came after Mr Osborne told the Sunday Telegraph that Mr Osborne wanted a 'massive increase in the number of people who can own their own home'.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Osborne said: 'Home ownership is an absolutely core Conservative belief and aspiration that we support. '
article_snippet.sent: In the next parliament I would like to see over a million more people helped into home ownership by a Conservative government. '
article_snippet.sent: Labour's Shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds said: 'More warm words on housing from The Chancellor of the Exchequer will be cold comfort to the record number of young people and families priced out of home ownership over the past five years. '
article_snippet.sent: Under a Conservative government we've seen the lowest levels of housebuilding in peacetime since the 1920s and home ownership has fallen to a 30-year low. '
article_snippet.sent: Labour's Better Plan will ensure Britain builds the homes working people need. '
article_snippet.sent: Labour will get at least 200,000 homes built a year by 2020, backed by a comprehensive plan - the first in a generation - and a £5bn Future Homes Fund to support the building of homes for first-time buyers.'