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How many social homes have been sold off in the last 10 years
The number of social homes being lost continues to outnumber those being built, and in large numbers
Right to buy
Even this right-wing think tanks agrees with Labour’s ‘right to buy’ policy
Civitas proposed the idea in 2016.
Of course Right to Buy is doomed – affordable homes were never the point of it
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.
Right-to-buy has stoked the housing crisis – but the Tories want to roll it out further
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.
The housing crisis is deepening – and the Tories have no solution
Affordable housebuilding has fallen to the lowest level in 24 years
The government’s white paper won’t reverse the decline of social housing
Not such a break with the past, then