{"id":163319,"date":"2025-10-26T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/right-to-buy-in-reverse-how-brighton-is-tackling-its-social-housing-crisis-richard-partington\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T23:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:43:29","slug":"right-to-buy-in-reverse-how-brighton-is-tackling-its-social-housing-crisis-richard-partington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/right-to-buy-in-reverse-how-brighton-is-tackling-its-social-housing-crisis-richard-partington\/","title":{"rendered":"Right to buy in reverse: how Brighton is tackling its social housing crisis | Richard Partington"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe council is rolling back Thatcher\u2019s flagship policy by buying stock from private landlords. Other local authorities should take noteOn a windswept housing estate by the English Channel, Jacob Taylor surveys the latest addition to his property empire: a mixture of one-, two- and three-bedroom flats, built on the playing fields of an old private school.They might not look like much but these neat rows of redbrick homes are an important acquisition \u2013 not for an offshore investor or a real-estate mogul, but for the Labour-run Brighton and Hove city council, where Taylor, its deputy leader, is taking a trailblazing approach. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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The council is rolling back Thatcher\u2019s flagship policy by buying stock from private landlords. 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