5,000 Council Houses Were Sold Off And No Replacements Built

Calls are growing for the government’s ‘Right to Buy’ policy to be suspended in Greater Manchester after it emerged that more than 5,000 council houses have been sold off across the region since 2012 - but not a single one built to directly replace them. The findings from Greater Manchester’s housing commission, part of the combined authority, reveal that despite government promising ‘one for one’ replacements for any home sold off over the last five years, nothing has in fact been built with the £27m generated from those sales due to heavy Whitehall restrictions on councils. Read more on the MEN website.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/calls-right-buy-policy-suspended-15154742