Lord Kerslake speaks out

Lord Kerslake speaking at The Chartered Institute of Housing’s annual conference in Manchester renewed his attack on the governments plans to extend the right to buy to housing Associations. He claimed that the proposal is wrong in principle and wrong in practice, Lord Kerslake, who is the chair of housing group Peabody, reportedly said the…

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Fall in home ownership

According to the 2011 Census released today by the ONS, the proportion of owned homes in 2011 decreased by 5 percentage points, the first fall in a century, more than half (64%, 15.0 million) of the 23.4 million households in England and Wales were owner occupied, however this was a decline from 69% in 2001.…

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Tory manifesto to extend right to buy

The Conservative manifesto that is being lauched today will beĀ  including an extension to the right to buy, they will be announcing that they will be extending the near 35 year old right to buy your council home that was initially introduced by Margaret Thatcher in the early 80’s to include the 1.3 million housing…

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Right to buy to be included in manifesto

Is this a sensible policy or just another vote catcher?….The Conservatives are expected to include in their manifesto the Right to Buy which would be extended to up to 2.5million housing-association tenants. This reform, backed by senior Conservatives including Iain Duncan Smith, Boris Johnson and David Davis, is expected to be included in array of…

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