{"id":170236,"date":"2026-01-23T23:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/seeing-red-over-the-greens-advocacy-of-buy-the-supply-housing-policy-letters\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T03:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:32:37","slug":"seeing-red-over-the-greens-advocacy-of-buy-the-supply-housing-policy-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/seeing-red-over-the-greens-advocacy-of-buy-the-supply-housing-policy-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing red over the Greens\u2019 advocacy of \u2018buy the supply\u2019 housing policy | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBella Sankey responds to a letter from Si\u00e2n Berry and urges her to pay more attention closer to home I was surprised to see Si\u00e2n Berry (Letters, 9 January) advocate that Labour \u201cbuy the supply\u201d of landlord homes as a way of increasing the stock of social housing. Si\u00e2n may want to pay more attention closer to home. The Labour council in Brighton and Hove is pursuing exactly that policy, as was featured in the Guardian last year (Right to buy in reverse: how Brighton is tackling its social housing crisis, 26 October).As with many policy areas, the Greens like soundbites and writing\u00a0letters, but often have vanishingly little interest in actual policy implementation. It was invariably the case when the Greens ran Brighton and Hove city\u00a0council: a lot of talking about the climate crisis, but little progress\u00a0in expanding recycling nor city-wide decarbonisation \u2013\u00a0something that we are now putting\u00a0right. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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