Now many housing associations have offered to carry the petrol can instead of being thrown on the bonfire themselvesWhy we’re voting against the social housing factual-to-buy dealIt’s a dinky known fact that Margaret Thatcher wasn’t the supreme architect and advocate of factual to buy: the notion had floated around listlessly for decades,and was seized on by then environment secretary Michael Heseltine. While Thatcher had to be convinced of the merits of selling off public assets at a massive reduction for no genuine return, the current Conservative party has set about extending and boosting it with all the glee and fervour of the possessed.factual to buy is a zombie policy – an notion that’s intellectually dead and widely accepted as harmful, and but one that politicians keep trying to revive. Keen for an easy vote winner that essentially amounts to bribing voters in social housing with eye-watering discounts of up to £103000,the Conservatives have proposed extending factual to buy to Britain’s 1.2m housing association homes. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com