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Angela Rayner shells out £800,000 for her THIRD home: As Labour turns the screws on second-home owners 'pricing locals out of housing', Deputy PM buys seaside pad
23 Aug 2025 23:18 GMT
… being frozen out of the housing market in popular tourist … she had shuttled between two right-to-buy council properties early in her … taxpayer as one of the housing costs reimbursed by Commons … a second home.
Shadow Housing Secretary James Cleverly accused Ms …
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Angela Rayner shells out £800,000 for her THIRD home: As Labour turns the screws on second-home owners 'pricing locals out of housing', Deputy PM buys seaside pad
23 Aug 2025 19:53 GMT
… being frozen out of the housing market in popular tourist … she had shuttled between two right-to-buy council properties early in her … taxpayer as one of the housing costs reimbursed by Commons … a second home.
Shadow Housing Secretary James Cleverly accused Ms …
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Did right-to-buy cause Britain’s housing crisis?
13 Aug 2025 16:38 GMT
… have been sold through right-to-buy, worth £371 billion. … empty
The philosophy behind right-to-buy
Right-to-buy is branded in … one.”
The social housing gap
Right-to-buy wasn’t just about … since 1991, primarily through right-to-buy sales and demolitions. …
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Monday newspaper round-up: High street banks, right-to-buy scheme, John Lewis
04 Aug 2025 07:58 GMT
… added. – Guardian
Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme has cost UK taxpayers … ’s contribution to Britain’s housing crisis. In its report into … fuelled vast shortages in social housing and turbocharged inequality. – Guardian
One …
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Manchester's housing crisis is not the council's fault
03 Aug 2025 16:08 GMT
… city centre project from housing association Great Places will … housing supply is increasing is because newbuild figures are tempered by right-to-buy … It lost 2,139 to right-to-buy, so a net rise … exempting any new stock from right-to-buy for 35 years — so …
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Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’
03 Aug 2025 11:45 GMT
Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme has cost UK … fuelled vast shortages in social housing and turbocharged inequality.
Describing … to tackle Britain’s housing crisis by making sweeping changes … depleted Britain’s affordable housing stock as the homes …
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Skipton MP gets a tour of the town's latest new housing development
25 Jul 2025 04:18 GMT
… people on the council housing waiting list and will … developers in bringing forward new housing.
Afterwards, Sir Julian said: … to help meet the housing needs of local people. … primarily through the housing revenue account and right-to-buy receipts.
The visit …
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Young Scots are rightly furious at a housing emergency that proves the system is against them
10 Jul 2025 13:15 GMT
… 20 years. Social housing struggles to get a … workforce, massively inflating local housing costs in the process. … may be multiple new housing developments alongside the motorway, … the disastrous right-to-buy scheme, which decimated social housing stocks across …
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Angela Rayner slammed for 'hypocrisy' after slashing right-to-buy discounts
04 Jul 2025 10:28 GMT
… to buy their homes. The right-to-buy savings will be slashed from … capitalised on right-to-buy will not be allowed to again. Shadow housing scretary …
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New council houses to be exempt from right-to-buy for 35 years
03 Jul 2025 14:40 GMT
… number of reforms to right-to-buy, including cutting discounts … for Affordable Housing, said: ‘Reform of right-to-buy was one of … and a commitment to reinvest right-to-buy receipts locally.’
They added: … .
Previous changes to right-to-buy last autumn mean that …