Wales election issue guide 2016: Housing
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Parties listed alphabetically
Create a National Development Framework with its implementation overseen by an autonomous Welsh Planning Inspectorate
Continue to oppose the Right to Buy scheme and take action to ensure the social housing stock remains intact in order to meet demand for homes
Abolish letting agency fees and extend the fit and proper person's test for landlord licensing to letting agents
Raise environmental standards in housing
Incentives for brownfield development
Allow local people to call a binding referendum on planning applications that have a significant effect on their local communities
Free local authorities from government-imposed minimum housing numbers
Identify long-term dormant land held by central and local government so it can be released for affordable developments
Make available 12,000 new homes a year, located in the right places
Ensure all social housing and housing association building stock brought up to level 4 of the Code for Sustainable Homes by 2020
Introduce Right to Rent legislation to strengthen tenants' rights
Apply a bedroom tax rebate for Wales
Scrap stamp duty for first time buyers on all properties up to the value of £250,000
Protect the Right to Buy for tenants wanting to buy their council home; restoring the full discount and reinvesting proceeds into new social housing
Deliver an empty homes strategy to bring properties back into use
Implement a Rent to Buy scheme to make home ownership more accessible
Deliver an extra 20,000 affordable homes in the next assembly term
End the right to buy
Aim to support construction of more than 6,000 homes through Help to Buy ladder
Explore options for ending land banking
Fund 20,000 extra affordable homes
New Rent to Own scheme for first time buyers
Action to protect vulnerable people in private housing sector including a cap on letting agency fees and rent increases
Introduce a new Help to Rent scheme to provide government-backed tenancy deposit loans for first-time renters under 30
