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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Trying to end the Right to Buy, but announcing a deadline for the full discount before its replacement with a much lower capped RtB discount has caused chaos.... but once we've passed through that (which will take some time), what we are left with is no alternative:

WE MUST REBUILD SOCIAL HOUSING...

Lets hope Angela Rayner is focussed on hosing as she claims & can deliver if not the 1.5M houses she promises, a good proportion of that in social housing!


theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Call it Thatcher’s timebomb: the great council housing selloff, a crisis hidden in plain sightBy Aditya Chakrabortty