Right to Buy response: we need more social housing not less
Responding to the Tories’ plans to extend ‘right to buy’ to housing association homes, Left Unity’s Felicity Dowling said:
“At a time when when we desperately need more social housing, this policy is a disaster. It will take thousands of homes out of social ownership and put them into private hands.
“Within a few years these very same homes will be bought by speculators, then rented back to us by private landlords at sky-high rents. This will only cause further social cleansing and homelessness.
“We don’t need an extended right to buy, we need a ‘right to sell’ – taking homes back into council and social ownership.
“To meet housing demand we need to build a million sustainable, publicly owned homes, and keep them in public ownership.”
Felicity Dowling is available for interview. Contact press@leftunity.org
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