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LABOUR’S new shadow housing minister geared up for battle yesterday as a charity’s report revealed that nearly 113,000 council homes will be sold off as part of the government’s right-to-buy scheme.
John Healey highlighted a report by homeless charity Shelter warning that the flagship Tory policy would result in “extreme damage.”
Shelter’s scrutiny of the scheme found that 6.8 per cent of all council houses in England would face a forced sale in order to fund the right-to-buy extension plans.
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
