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Ending right to buy is a necessary step towards resolving the housing crisis
It’s high time for England to follow Scotland and Wales in ending the privatisation of collectively owned housing. MARTIN WICKS explains why
CRISIS POINT: An estate agent sign outside a block of council flats, south London

IN DEFENDING her support for right to buy Lisa Nandy recently said that “telling working class people they can’t own their own home is just unacceptable.” 

If she meant their council home, that rather contradicts what she said at last September’s Labour conference: “The idea of a home for life handed on in common ownership to future generations is an idea worth fighting for.” 

If a council home is sold to the tenant then it ceases to be “in common ownership.” 

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