“English councils pay private landlords millions in incentives to house homeless families.” Council houses (that tenants couldn’t buy) were a really good idea. #Housing #RightToBuy
#RightToBuy
“England to sell eight times more council homes than it built last year, report finds.” Good old Mrs Thatchers right to be homeless or ripped off by a private landlord. #RightToBuy #Housing
>>The way out of the housing impasse is by privileging occupancy over property rights, flattening the tenure hierarchy, expanding social housing and building other decommodified housing alternatives. Resolving the housing crisis depends upon reversing and replacing the changes to the British housing system and society that the right to buy helped to bring about.<<
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/06/thatcher-right-to-buy-policy-damage-losses
Thatcher stole public assets to use as bribes to buy votes.
#RightToBuy in #England ‘fuelled #HousingCrisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’ | #Housing | The Guardian
What’s this? So, #Thatcher's flagship social engineering policy was a disaster? Well thanks a lot, Maggie! [Sarc.]
"The #housing secretary said on Wednesday that the government would consult on a series of changes to limit the number of people who can qualify for government-subsidised discounts to buy their houses."
“In the face of a desperate housing crisis, the existence of right to buy means we are in effect trying to refill a bath without being allowed to put the plug back in.”
Aha, Anglea Rayner say the Right to Buy may(!) be removed from newly built social housing.
May... may? This needs to be move No.1 in the battle to revive & expand social housing in this country.... it may not be a sufficient move in that project, but it is definitely a necessary move.
(But of course, the Tory press will lambast Angela Rayner who bought her own house through RtB.... she just needs to brazen it out & get on with ending RtB)
“New council housing in England may be removed from right to buy scheme.” About time. The Right to Buy is a disaster for social housing and was essentially Thatcher’s right to buy votes! #SocialHousing #RightToBuy
https://thelabourcampaignforcouncilhousing.org/statement-on-ending-right-to-buy/
The Labour government needs to end the continual privatization of council housing in England.
Great manifesto launch for the #GreenParty of England & Wales
#InsulateHomes
#RentControls
End #RightToBuy
#TaxTheRich
Good luck #CarlaDenyar #SianBerry #EllieChowns & #AdrianRamsay
#GoldsmithsStreet #Norwich won the Stirling prize for architecture in 2019…the only time social housing has won this prestigious prize. But now thanks to #Tory #RightToBuy they are being sold off…this communal asset will be in private hands and how will it be replaced?
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148315178#/?channel=RES_BUY
I don’t understand the objections to Right To Buy. I do understand the problems with implementation, which is very wrong, but scrapping the scheme looks like baby with bath water stuff.
Changes required:
Purchase must be at market rates.
Money must be reinvested in homes, either refurbished on new.
Extend the right to commercial rentals.
“Something is stirring in England: right to buy looks imperilled, and not a moment too soon”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/12/england-right-to-buy-thatcher-labour-leadership
#UKPolitics #RightToBuy
‘The bailiffs will come at noon’: desperation and devastation in England’s housing courts | Housing | The Guardian
Article is over 3 months old but just as relevant.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/16/legal-aid-cuts-britain-housing-crisis-county-court-tenants-homes-lawyers
#Poverty
#Housing
#England
#Disabled
#Migrants
#Rents
#Bailiffs
#RightToBuy
#SocialHousing
#SocialHousingShortage
#HousingCrisis
#Courts
Of all the policies imposed on #Britain by #Conservative governments, few have reshaped the country’s fortunes as enduringly as #RightToBuy. For a lucky few, the policy has meant colossal windfalls and the chance to snap up some of the best properties in the country on the cheap. For the rest, right to buy has meant rising #homelessness, spiralling rents and #LocalAuthorities facing #bankruptcy as the #SocialHousing stock dwindles, year by year https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/26/councils-sell-off-more-houses-right-to-buy-failure
#ToryPoliciesInAction
Thatcher’s flagship initiative, forcing councils to sell off public housing at huge discounts, has seen two-thirds of British council homes privatised. Councils are now on the brink of insolvency, largely due to the huge cost of providing temporary accommodation without enough council-owned homes left to go round.
Brand new council houses are also going under the hammer, almost as fast as they are being built as
councils sell off more houses than they build.
#RightToBuy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/26/councils-sell-off-more-houses-right-to-buy-failure
Councils say social housing is being sidelined in call for right-to-buy reform
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/councils-say-social-housing-is-being-sidelined-in-call-for-right-to-buy-reform/ar-BB1ieNvQ?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=ad5ad862e66d42b080365a811263f960&ei=30
#SocialHousing
#RightToBuy
#Council
#Councils
#LocalGovernmentAssociation
#LGA
#SocialHousingSellingFasterThanReplacing
Cllr Derek Louden talking about the legacy of the Tories' dreadful #RightToBuy Scheme at #HighlandCouncil on Thursday.
TL;DW the money from the sales went to Westminster, the debt from the purchases remains with local councils.
#angelarayner is talking about boosting #socialhousing Ironic that the #righttobuy scheme in the 1980s was thought up by #Labour but then implemented by the #tories It could have worked if the funds raised had been reinvested in better social housing, but instead the proceeds were squandered. The social housing stock has been decimated. That’s the core problem. I don’t see Rayner or #Starmer coming up with a solution. The scale is just too big.
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