Housing Benefit Freeze Leaves Low-Income Renters Struggling as Rent Soars, Experts Warn

[Rampant Rabbit]

3 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

That seems like a broad pejorative generalization.

 

 

well spotted............ sadly  though correct, been surrounded by such "new" houses built in the 60-70's  only to watch them fall into disrepair then demolished in the late 90's to be  rebuilt yet again and already looking a  dump.

[CG1 Blue]

4 hours ago, Red Forever said:

The reason for Britain's housing crisis definitely goes back to Thatcher's "right to buy" policy. The catchy 3 word mantra resonated with Sun readers and was understandably popular.

The part of that policy that was just downright wrong was that local authorities were not allowed to use  the money from these sales to replace the housing stock.

Right to Buy was introduced almost 45 years ago. What have Labour (and Mirror readers) done to fix the issue since then? 

 

Also I thought local authorities could retain a large percentage of the sale proceeds. They were not banned from using those funds to build new social housing.