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Who did Help to Buy really help?

The scheme is back as Your First Home. Lesson one of Housing 101 uses the government's own evaluation of the last one, published in September 2026, to show who it helped and what it did to prices.

What the evaluation found

  • 4 in 5Could already afford a first home
  • 3 in 10The same, in London
  • ~15%Of new builds came from it

Source: MHCLG, Evaluation of the Help to Buy scheme, 15 Sep 2026 · buyers 2013–21 (s4.7) · new builds 2013–23 (s1.4.2)

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Housing 101

How Britain stopped building, why a home costs what it costs, and what would actually fix it. Eight short lessons, no property-ladder clichés.

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