{"id":144343,"date":"2024-05-12T18:59:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T11:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/something-is-stirring-in-england-right-to-buy-looks-imperilled-and-not-a-moment-too-soon-john-harris\/"},"modified":"2024-05-12T19:08:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T12:08:16","slug":"something-is-stirring-in-england-right-to-buy-looks-imperilled-and-not-a-moment-too-soon-john-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/something-is-stirring-in-england-right-to-buy-looks-imperilled-and-not-a-moment-too-soon-john-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Something is stirring in England: right to buy looks imperilled, and not a moment too soon | John Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt was Thatcher\u2019s most dire piece of social engineering. Labour\u2019s leadership can\u2019t keep ignoring the voices now raised against itMore than a decade after her death and 34 years since she left Downing Street, Margaret Thatcher continues to haunt us. After Liz Truss\u2019s cosplay as the Iron Lady, Rishi Sunak has drawn comparisons between \u201cthe grocer\u2019s daughter and the pharmacist\u2019s son\u201d. In December last year, Keir Starmer admiringly said that Thatcher \u201cset loose our natural entrepreneurialism\u201d. All this suggests a very British mixture of muddle and masochism: her spirit, it seems, must be summoned so we can be magicked out of our current mess, even if so many of the UK\u2019s crises began with what she did.One of her most painful legacies is the policy that defined her political essence: right to buy, that totemic scheme whereby the tenants of council houses and flats can purchase such properties at a discount, and become members of what Conservatives call the property-owning democracy. Since it was introduced in 1980, more than 2m dwellings have moved from the public realm into private hands. Stringent restrictions preventing councils spending the receipts on new homes have had predictable effects: since 1991, there has been an average net loss of 24,000 social homes a year. All this feeds our ever-worsening housing crisis \u2013 and, as a result, the fragile condition of millions of ordinary lives.John Harris is a Guardian columnist Continue reading…
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