‘End Right To Buy’ To Help Build Three Million Social Homes

Labour’s London Assembly Housing Spokesperson, Tom Copley AM says building social housing to the extent pitched by the Shelter/Social Housing Commission report means an end to Right To Buy. “It’s no good building new social housing only to lose precious existing council homes to Right To Buy. “The government must end this policy, which has resulted in the loss of 287,303 social rented homes in London in the past 40 years,” he says. Copley recognises the report recommendations as a “benchmark for the level of ambition”. London alone has seen fewer than 8,000 social homes having been built over the last five years in total. Read more on 24housing.

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