Green Party Calls to Scrap Right To Buy

The right to buy scheme should be scrapped in Oxford to reduce the city's housing crisis, a councillor has said. The Green Party's Sam Hollick said the scheme had depleted the city's stock by 23 houses in 2013 so far. Labour councillor Scott Seamons called the Green idea "hopelessly naive". He added the council recently gave permission to build more than 600 affordable homes, and that building was the key to solving the shortage. Mr Hollick said while 23 houses did not seem much to fight for, there were 62 people on the 4,522-long housing register who were in the top priority band for urgent housing. Read more on the BBC website.