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                    Help to Buy is to be extended by a further two years from 2021Jason
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                    Mr Betts added: “My personal view would be that if government wants to help
                    solve the housing crisis, it will have to put more money into helping build homes
                    that people can afford to rent.”


                    Henry Pryor, a buying agent, said that the increasing number of homes being

                    built across the country had led to a decline in quality. “If you aspire to build
                    300,000 homes a year there will be people taking short cuts, it is human nature,
                    and we don’t have a sufficiently robust system in place to ensure the properties

                    are fit for purpose,” he said.


                    “I don’t think there is a conspiracy to knock out shoddy homes but we are seeing
                    what I call Friday afternoon houses. Homes that seem like they have been built


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