Millions For ‘Ludicrous Right To Buy Lottery’ Should Fund Homelessness Schemes

Around £190m earmarked for the “ludicrous housing association right-to-buy lottery” should be diverted into funding an emergency winter programme to prevent further homeless deaths, the Commons heard. Labour’s Steve McCabe challenged Housing Minister Luke Hall to admit housing association right-to-buy was “always a daft idea”. During a debate on the rising homeless death rates, McCabe said there had been only 180 transactions under the “ludicrous housing association right-to-buy lottery”. The remaining £190m should, he said, be diverted to an emergency winter programme to “spare us a spate of people freezing to death on the streets.” Read more on 24housing.

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