Deputy PM tells metro mayors they must take ‘the tough choices necessary to fix the foundations of our housing system’A reader asks:I was wondering if you ever got a response from the DHSC yesterday as to why the previous government claimed settling the junior doctors’ dispute would cost £1.7billion?The real challenge we’ve got at the moment is the 2012 changes to right to buy [the discount was increased] meant that we can’t replace the stock, because the taxpayers are funding us creating social homes and then we’re not able to replace them once they are sold off at a highly discounted rate.We think right to buy is something people should have, if you’ve raised your family in your home, you’ve been in it a long time, then this should be a way for you to buy it. But we don’t think the current situation is tenable when we want to build more social housing. Continue reading…
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Author : Andrew Sparrow
Publish date : 2024-07-31 17:19:01
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