Labour says it wants to help more onto the housing ladder

First time buyers

• Up to 80,000 first-time buyers promised help through the construction of new low-cost starter homes on publicly owned land, including 100 former NHS sites

• There will be a competition to build a home for �60,000

• First time buyers will pay only the �60,000 building cost, not the price of the land.

Social Housing

• New Homebuy scheme will allow 300,000 council and housing association tenants to buy a share of their home

• Proceeds from the scheme will be reinvested in housing

• 10,000 extra social homes to be built a year by 2008 - a 50% increase on current rates

• Tenants promised more say over where they live by extending choice over lettings nationwide

• New MoveUK scheme to combine national information about jobs and housing opportunities to help people move to a different region.

House building

• Plans confirmed for 1.1 million new homes by 2016 in four growth areas - Milton Keynes and the south Midlands, Ashford in Kent, the Thames Gateway in south Essex and north Kent, and a strip running from Peterborough to London, covering areas around Cambridge and Stansted Airport

• Local councils to be allowed to reserve land for affordable rural housing for key workers and local people

• New planning guidance to help local councils release unwanted industrial land and encourage brownfield development

• �40m to help areas who want sustainable housing growth and regeneration.

Other measures

• On homelessness, target of halving numbers in temporary accommodation by 2010

• Sites promised for travellers and gypsies but coupled with plans to tackle "unauthorised" development

• �5bn to help more than 1.2 million people, many of them elderly or disabled, change their homes so they can live independently.