The Tories are Sunakered on housing
Rishi Sunak is even campaigning against his own housing policies
Rishi Sunak is even campaigning against his own housing policies
“This is desperate stuff from a tired government, repackaging a plan from 2015.”
One in 10 households in need of housing are stuck on council waiting lists for over five years as a result of the chronic shortage of affordable homes.
Civitas proposed the idea in 2016.
A report showing how the scheme will fail in the next five years did not come as a surprise. The end of council housing was the plan all along.
400,000 houses sold under right-to-buy are now being rented privately and for double average council rents. The policy’s created a new class of buy-to-let landlords.
Affordable housebuilding has fallen to the lowest level in 24 years
Not such a break with the past, then
George Osborne’s approach should be consigned to the dustbin of history
Social housing organisations are part of the fabric of communities – but they can only do so much