Right to Buy Should Be Extended To All Social Tenants

The author of a controversial paper on housing has called on the right to buy to be extended to housing association tenants.  John Moss, a Conservative councillor in Waltham Forest, called on the government to end the ‘discrimination’ between council and housing association tenants.  Mr Moss called housing estates ‘slums’ and ‘barracks of the poor’ in the 2009 pamphlet Principles for social housing reform. On the subject of Right to Buy, Mr Moss said: ‘The government has done a good thing by increasing the maximum discount to market value that these tenants can secure, but there are still well over 1.2 million households to whom this choice is denied, simply because when they needed a social home, their only choice was to go to a housing association. That’s unfair and we should end this discrimination.’ Read more on the Conservative Home website.