Not sure about the wisdom of ending right to buy altogether. If it had been handled properly from its inception it could have been used as a means of funding and building social housing for the future and eventually made such building almost self sustaining with limited taxpayer input. It could have helped Britain avoid the housing mess its in now rather than exacerbate it.
BTW long before Thatcher came to power many councils were allowing tenants to buy their homes and it had been included in both Labour and Tory manifestos at various times in the 1950s and 1960s, one of the catalysts for this was the introduction of MIRAS by the Labour Government in the 1960s, that saw council house sales reach 40,000 a year by the mid 1970s.
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Not sure about the wisdom of ending right to buy altogether. If it had been handled properly from its inception it could have been used as a means of funding and building social housing for the future and eventually made such building almost self sustaining with limited taxpayer input. It could have helped Britain avoid the housing mess its in now rather than exacerbate it.
BTW long before Thatcher came to power many councils were allowing tenants to buy their homes and it had been included in both Labour and Tory manifestos at various times in the 1950s and 1960s, one of the catalysts for this was the introduction of MIRAS by the Labour Government in the 1960s, that saw council house sales reach 40,000 a year by the mid 1970s.
Quite sure the OP wants to associate this with the Tories and eventually Thatcher, but this is a Scottish Government policy, ie not Tory.
Not now but in two years time.