Article: Brown launches bid to rescue housing market ; Gordon Brown will today try to launch a comeback after his summer of discontent with a package to ease the housing crisis.

Gordon Brown will today try to launch a comeback after his summer of discontent with a package to ease the housing crisis.

The Prime Minister will outline plans to help first-time buyers and protect families from having their homes repossessed as the credit crunch bites.

The measures will include a new mortgage rescue scheme to help vulnerable families at risk of repossession.

A new shared equity scheme will help first-time buyers get onto the property ladder and there will be extra cash for councils and housing associations to provide more homes.

The mortgage rescue scheme will not be available for people who have acted recklessly, but instead offer eligible home owners options to avoid ...

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