article_snippet.sent: Labour claims Labour tax break –
article_snippet.sent: A Labour government would also change planning law to give first-time buyers who have lived in a local authority area for more than three years
article_snippet.sent: Labour aides say Labour aides would have a two-month window in which to buy a home before it was made more generally available in a reform designed to overcome local opposition to housing developments.
article_snippet.sent: Labour’s most eye-catching so far in the campaign – are designed to counter Tory plans to expand Help to Buy loans, the right to buy for housing-association tenants and to offer 200,000 ‘starter homes’, sold at a 20 per cent discount.
article_snippet.sent: Labour claims Labour will oversee the construction of a million homes by 2020 and introduce controversial ‘use or lose it’ powers ensuring developers build on land rather than hoarding it.
article_snippet.sent: Labour says Labour would be paid for by tackling tax avoidance by landlords, which HMRC has calculated costs more than £550million each year.
highlights_snippet.sent: Labour would also give the buyers