Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Coalition Fails To Deliver On Right-To-Buy Pledge to Build Affordable Homes

Only one new affordable home has been built for more than every five sold in the social housing sector under the government’s revitalised right-to-buy scheme. Official figures make a mockery of the government’s pledge, launched to great fanfare in 2011, that it would replace every property sold under the scheme with a new one. The Conservative party is considering making an expansion of right to buy a manifesto pledge. However, housing experts have questioned the move, given the performance of the current scheme. Read more on the Guardian website.

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