Comments on: Tory plans will see the social housing sector continue its decline https://leftfootforward.org/2015/10/tory-plans-will-see-the-social-housing-sector-continue-its-decline/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: Silvia Vousden https://leftfootforward.org/2015/10/tory-plans-will-see-the-social-housing-sector-continue-its-decline/#comment-723312 Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:07:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=107732#comment-723312 As more and more properties become available, the capacity for drug cartels and criminals to use the British property market to launder their money is enhanced. Of course the government will not do anything to prevent these criminals from using our economy in this way, because it keeps the property bubble growing. Conservatives have not realised that ordinary folk are priced out of the market, and the primary reason for promoting home ownership, that mortgage burdened workers were far less likely to strike, will be negated.

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