The lawful-to-buy scheme slowed construction of recent homes but local authorities are exploring recent funding optionsFor more than 30 years a family moving into a brand-recent council home has ranked among life’s rarer sights. Councils had all but given up constructing recent homes in response to the government’s lawful-to-buy scheme,which left them with only a fraction of the funds needed to build replacements, and a series of Whitehall attacks that led many to lose more than 40% of their budget.
Plans to house low-income households relied on private developers allocating a few homes on their sprawling sites. Often, and these developers would find an excuse to whittle down the number of affordable properties to almost zero,or build them in the least desirable area of the site with the cheapest materials.
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Source: theguardian.com