• £400m investment in new development, supporting housebuilders in need of development finance including small and medium sized builders
• Mortgage indemnity scheme designed with the Home Builders Federation and Council of Mortgage Lenders to offer 95% loan to value mortgages for new build properties in England, to support 100,000 households
• Free up public sector land with 'build now, pay later' deals for developers, releasing enough land to build 100,000 new homes and create up to 200,000 new jobs in the construction industry
• A new £500m Growing Places fund to support infrastructure
• £400m earmarked for FirstBuy, to help 10,500 first time buyers with the help of an equity loan up to 20%
• Consultation on plans to force local authorities to re-think section 106 agreements signed before April 2010, in areas where development is stalled
• A Custom Homes programme worth £30m to help individuals build their own homes, offering short-term project finance for independent projects
• Restatement of the government's commitment to the New Homes Bonus, community infrastructure levy and local business rate retention, the community right to build and simplification of the planning system through the National Planning Policy Framework
  

• Councils granted financial responsibility for their own housing stock through reform of the Housing Revenue Account
• Reform of social housing management through the Localism Act, creating a sector which uses social housing as a 'springboard' for social mobility
• Average new tenancies granted for five years, with tenancies of between two and five years allocated in 'exceptional circumstances'
• New for-profit housing providers to offer social housing: 'The regulator is in advanced discussions with a number of publicy quoted companies who wish to set up a social housing subsidiary'
• Right-to-buy owners will be offered a discount of as much as half the value of their homes. Homes sold through right-to-buy will be matched by new homes developed for social rent
• Introduction of HomeSwap Direct, a scheme to enable social tenants to manage moving house themselves, plus the creation of 12 'mobility vanguards' - areas in which £1m will be invested to investigate new methods of mobility
• Local authorities granted to the freedom to allocate stock in the way they see fit, including granting priority to working households
• Regulation of social housing will focus on 'value for money', making boards acountable for how their organisations deliver the most from assets, such as increased specialisation or econonmies of scale
• Councils no longer obligated to have open waiting lists
• Social landlords to be given new powers to identify and recover properties that are being used fraudulently
• Housing providers can charge market rents from tenants earning 'very high salaries'
• New measure to prevent people who already have a suitable home from seeking social housing
• Encouraging innovation and competition between landlords
  

• An independent review of barriers to investment in the private rented sector
• New build-to-let models, where homes are built specifically for the private rental market, with funding from major investors
• Financial incentives for investment in private rent, such as major investors paying just 1% in stamp duty, and reform of real estate investment trusts
• Government will work with local authorities to 'tackle the worst properties' – but no further detail on how this work will be carried out
• New factsheets the help private landlords understand the basics requirements of managing a property for rent
  

• £100m in funding to bring empty homes back into use, and a further £50m to tackle the worst concentrations of empty homes
• Consultation on an 'empty homes premium' added to council tax, payable if a home is left unattended for more than two years. Receipts from this additional tax used to bring homes back into use
• Government will encourage private landlords and housing providers to use funding attached to the Green Deal to renovate empty homes
• Changes to empty dwelling management orders to target long-term empty homes
• New Homes Bonus to be awarded to empty homes brought back into use

Vulnerable Groups

• New deal for older people's housing – although no detail on the terms of this deal – and £1.5m invested in the FirstStop information service for housing options
• £51m invested in handyperson schemes for repairs and adaptations
• Work to be carried out with the financial services industry to create new equity release products for older people
• £400m allocated to homelessness prevention
• A Ministerial Working Group has been created to address the causes of homelessness. It will also look at impact of criminalising squatting on the most vulnerable who squat rather than sleep rough
• £20m to implement the No Second Night Out programme across the country, and £10m to charity Crisis to support single homeless people
• Councils now able to discharge their duties to homeless people in the private rented sector
• Service personnel recieve high priority for social housing, and will not lose their right to qualify for local housing despite moving from base to base during their careers
• Service personnel placed at the top of the list for all government-supported home owenership schemes
• Work with credit reference agencies to ensure service men and women are not disadvantaged by their prior living arrangements when securing a private mortgage

Design

• Grant communities a say over the design of new homes. Funding provided to the Design Council to support communities to shape development in their own areas
• All new homes will meet the Zero Carbon Homes standard from 2016
• Review of building regulations to improve energy efficiency and carbon emmission standards for new buildings
• Commitment to the Green Deal to renovate existing homes and boost energy efficiency.