After more than four decades, Labour is returning council houses to their proper purpose.
But you wouldn’t know it from the BBC News website: “Tenants may not be able to buy new council homes” warns the dour headline – misleading the reader, in fact, because tenants should not be able to buy council homes at all!
They are social housing that should be passed between families that need them.
It should be obvious to most people by now that Margaret Thatcher’s plan to sell council houses was not a good idea. Homelessness has rocketed, partly because cheap-to-rent council houses are no longer readily available, and partly because those that were sold have passed to private landlords whose rents are sky-high.
So This Writer welcomes the announcement that Angela Rayner wants to put a stop to the Right to Buy scheme.
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Labour is returning council houses to their proper purpose
After more than four decades, Labour is returning council houses to their proper purpose.
But you wouldn’t know it from the BBC News website: “Tenants may not be able to buy new council homes” warns the dour headline – misleading the reader, in fact, because tenants should not be able to buy council homes at all!
They are social housing that should be passed between families that need them.
It should be obvious to most people by now that Margaret Thatcher’s plan to sell council houses was not a good idea. Homelessness has rocketed, partly because cheap-to-rent council houses are no longer readily available, and partly because those that were sold have passed to private landlords whose rents are sky-high.
So This Writer welcomes the announcement that Angela Rayner wants to put a stop to the Right to Buy scheme.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
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