The repercussions today are more homelessness, spiralling rents and bankrupt councils, says writer Phineas Harper
Margaret Thatcher visiting the Parker family of Northolt, London, who were among the first to buy their council house under the new law.Margaret Thatcher visiting the Parker family of Northolt, London, who were among the first to buy their council house under the new law.f all the policies imposed on Britain by Conservative governments, few have reshaped the country’s fortunes as enduringly as.
Instead, many authorities have launched schemes to cling on to as much of their remaining stock as possible. Some offer grants to incentivise council tenants to buy on the open market instead of via right to buy. Wandsworth, in south-west London, for instance, will chip intowards helping their tenants purchase a home “within the UK or anywhere else in the world”, provided it is not a council property.
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