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THE Tories suffered yet another blow yesterday when the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) criticised plans to extend their controversial right-to-buy policy to housing association tenants.
The extension of the policy to up to 1.3 million householders is a centrepiece of the party’s manifesto — seeking to emulate the electoral success of the original policy that helped sweep Thatcher to power in 1979.
But the IFS warned that the plans could reduce affordable housing and create wider gaps between rich and poor areas of towns and cities.
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
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance