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Right to buy ‘will wipe out 113,000 council homes’
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.
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