right to buy

Government will pay landlords 5 times more than it will spend on affordable housing in next 4 years
Housing crisis

Government will pay landlords 5 times more than it will spend on affordable housing in next 4 years

The £58bn housing benefit bill dwarfs the £11.5bn Affordable Homes Programme, think tank New Economics Foundation has found

Sadiq Khan’s Right to Buy-back scheme leads to return of 1,500 council homes
Right to Buy

Sadiq Khan’s Right to Buy-back scheme leads to return of 1,500 council homes

Fourteen London councils have been given £152 million to purchase 1,577 homes that have been or will be converted to social rent or to house homeless families.

Right to Buy: Fewer than half of homes sold off in the last year have been replaced
Right to Buy

Right to Buy: Fewer than half of homes sold off in the last year have been replaced

New figures show Right to Buy is continuing to erode England’s social housing stock as Boris Johnson looks to expand the scheme.

Labour would allow communities to crack down on holiday lets and buy failed football clubs
Levelling Up

Labour would allow communities to crack down on holiday lets and buy failed football clubs

Revealed: At least 30,000 people have waited 10 years for social housing
Social housing

Revealed: At least 30,000 people have waited 10 years for social housing

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Will 50-year mortgages help tackle the housing crisis?
Home ownership

Will 50-year mortgages help tackle the housing crisis?

Help to Build scheme asks Brits to tackle the housing crisis – but ‘won’t reach those in need’
Housing crisis

Help to Build scheme asks Brits to tackle the housing crisis – but ‘won’t reach those in need’

Boris Johnson’s plans to expand Right to Buy housing scheme labelled ‘baffling and unworkable’
Housing crisis

Boris Johnson’s plans to expand Right to Buy housing scheme labelled ‘baffling and unworkable’

Right to Buy: Boris Johnson’s plan to extend scheme branded the ‘opposite of what the country needs’
Right to Buy

Right to Buy: Boris Johnson’s plan to extend scheme branded the ‘opposite of what the country needs’