Michael Gove tells me extending "Right to Buy" to housing association tenants cannot lead to depletion of social housing stock, insisting for every one sold one must be built to replace it. But govt isn't directly in charge of selling or building, so it's hard to guarantee that.

“We’ve got a severe shortage of affordable housing in this country” Lisa Nandy, Shadow Levelling Up Secretary, says the government's plan to extend right to buy doesn't explain how properties will be replaced. bbc.in/3mOS59P | #R4Today

Labour have always despised the Conservative Right to Buy policy, which has given 1000s of working people the right to own their own family home & have a greater stake in society. Socialists don’t like ordinary people owning anything. It makes us independent, which they hate.

Thinking of applying for the Right to Buy your Council home? If you wish to purchase your council properly at the current discount rates you may need to act quickly as Labour are about to slash the current discount by more than 50%.

The current Labour administration is likely to scrap the current discount on your Right to Buy Council home from 70% to 25%

If you are a Council tenant and you haven’t applied for Right to Buy yet then NOW is the time to apply so that you are included in the current regime before the discounts are slashed. #RightToBuy

Council’s retaining 100% of Right to Buy receipts is a good thing and always should have been the case. Local Authorities should be forced to ring fence this money and only plough it back into new housing stock. That is how Right to Buy should have always worked. #RightToBuy

🚨 Major changes to the UK Right to Buy Scheme! 🏠 From 21 Nov 2024, discounts for eligible council tenants will drop to £16K–£38K (location-based), down from up to £136,400. The government will also claim a share of any property value increase. 📉 Plan ahead! #RightToBuy

Some London Local Authorities reporting over a 1000% increase in Right to Buy applications over the past month as tenants rush to beat the cut in discount from £136,400 to £16,000 on November 21. #RighttoBuy #LocalAuthorityNews

Check the right to buy forms ppl from your council. Today’s the last day to get the £136000 discount from the council for your yards. Past today you’re only entitled to a £16000 discount. Anyone that wants the form, message me or download it from the council website insha’Allah

🚨 Right to Buy changes from TODAY!!! 👇🏽 Please note these are maximum discounts, and are still subject to other factors such as eligibility, previous discounts, and cost floor rules. #righttobuy #socialhousing #ukproperty #propertynews

More tenants could be excluded from Right to Buy bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… #Property #HousingMarket #Rentals #Tenants #RightToBuy

Council tenants may not be able to buy their homes until they have lived in them for about a decade under sweeping restrictions to the right-to-buy scheme ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

If you are a Local Authority Council tenant then TODAY is your LAST day to get an application submitted to avail of the larger Right to Buy discount of up to £136,400 before it drops to £16,000 tomorrow. It’s free to make an application. #RightToBuy bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

New homes set to be exempt from Right to Buy #RightToBuy lgcplus.com/services/housi…

From 1945 up until the introduction of Right to Buy in 1980, rates of council housebuilding rarely dipped below 100,000 a year. Since 1980, council housebuilding has remained chronically low.

Surge in right-to-buy purchases could cancel out plans to build 18,000 homes #RightToBuy #UKHousing msn.com/en-gb/money/ot…

London’s social housing at its most innovative and finest. #socialhousing

The #UK's Right-to-Buy scheme gave council house tenants the chance to own their home. It has been criticised for making the housing market more unequal but Richard Disney & Matteo Sandi Centre for Economic Performance find it helped reduce #educational inequality LSE Inequalities blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2…

What are Rachel Reeves' options on property tax? #propertytax #nationalpropertytax #proptax bbc.com/news/articles/…