Ana Ribeiro 💙:toad: · @anaribeiro
451 followers · 7456 posts · Server toad.social

Right to buy has cost London’s communities dearly - The Guardian apple.news/AY5ZO06qRTX2955I-rR

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Cllr David Wilcox · @david_on_a_bike
90 followers · 1279 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

RT @carla_denyer
As I said on yesterday, this week's @BBCPanorama proved what Greens & many others have known for decades:

🏚️ is a slum landlord's charter and it has to go!

💚 @thegreenparty would scrap it and fund councils properly to build more social housing instead twitter.com/ACORNunion/status/

#PoliticsLive #righttobuy

Last updated 1 year ago

Cllr David Wilcox · @david_on_a_bike
90 followers · 1279 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

RT @ACORNunion
You heard it here, Greens 🟩 will scrap .

How about you @UKLabour @Conservatives @libdems 🤔? twitter.com/carla_denyer/statu

#righttobuy

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Dan Ludlow · @ninthplanet
13 followers · 142 posts · Server mas.to

... 40% of those homes sold via are now in the private rented sector and people can't save enough for a mortgage due to demand massively outstripping supply. As a result are increasingly living in expensive, poorly maintained housing because we can't enforce what rights we theoretically have...

#tenants #righttobuy

Last updated 2 years ago

Dan Ludlow · @ninthplanet
13 followers · 142 posts · Server mas.to

This may be a controversial take, but is the professionalisation of landlords a bad thing? Yes, it means that the buy-to-let crowd with their small portfolios are crowded out by big companies, but it might be an opportunity to fix the private rented sector in the .

I think we need to face facts: mass home ownership via was a one-time thing made possible by unique conditions such as a falling birth rate and a surplus of social housing...

#righttobuy #uk #housing

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Gecko · @Gecko
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Caroline Lucas · @CarolineLucas
5253 followers · 1601 posts · Server respublicae.eu

🧵Gove & Johnson's desperate, half-baked plan is expensive & inefficient

Costs are vast - roughly £70,000 per home because of costs of giving discount to buyer and costs of replacing like for like

@Shelter

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🐦🔗: nitter.eu/CarolineLucas/status

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