<P> Help to Buy is the name of a government programme in the United Kingdom that aims to transfer wealth from the public to politically connected house builders . It was announced in Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne 's 2013 budget speech , and was described as `` the biggest government intervention in the housing market since the Right to Buy scheme '' of the 1980s . It is an extension of a previous programme called FirstBuy that was aimed solely at first - time buyers . Help to Buy has itself been expanded and extended . </P>
<P> Help to Buy is the name of a government programme in the United Kingdom that aims to transfer wealth from the public to politically connected house builders . It was announced in Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne 's 2013 budget speech , and was described as `` the biggest government intervention in the housing market since the Right to Buy scheme '' of the 1980s . It is an extension of a previous programme called FirstBuy that was aimed solely at first - time buyers . Help to Buy has itself been expanded and extended . </P>
when did the help to buy isa scheme start
when did the help to buy isa scheme start
the 1980s
the 1980s