Westminster City Council was notorious for a huge Right
to Buy scandal in the 1980s, when Tory leader Dame Shirley Porter was found to
have sold off council homes to likely Tory voters. The cost to the taxpayer at
the time was roughly £27 million. Now, to tackle its crisis in affordable
housing, the council has set up a charitable company called Westminster
Community Homes. The company has spent £90.74 million buying back 295
ex-council homes, at an average cost of £307,593. A Mirror investigation has
found that the prices being paid to buy back the homes are up to 22 times more
than they were sold for. Read more on the Daily Mirror website.
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