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IFS Analysis Reveals Help to Buy Scheme Favored High-Income Households

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) concludes that George Osborne's 2013 Help to Buy mortgage schemes primarily benefited higher-income households rather than improving social mobility, contradicting the program's original intent.

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Higher-income households benefited most from Help to Buy, thinktank finds

Analysis by IFS shows George Osborne’s mortgage schemes launched in 2013 had little effect on social mobility

^{Heather Stewart (The Guardian)}