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Boris Johnson is considering extended Thatcher's controversial Right to Buy scheme to people renting from housing associations.

If the scheme was in place for 10 years, 223,843 homes would be sold, according to estimates in the report. Harry McKeown, the head of housing, care and support at YMCA St Paul’s Group said: “I’ve worked in housing and homelessness for 20 years. Councils argued their hands were tied when it came to spending the money. A report assessing the pilot published in February 2021 found the scheme mostly helped people in the 35 to 44 age bracket with an average household income of £34,666. More than two million council properties have been sold in England since the statutory Right to Buy scheme was introduced in October 1980. The government did launch a pilot scheme to test the idea in the Midlands in August 2018.

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Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine said: “Instead of copying and pasting from old manifestos, Boris Johnson should be helping families on the brink. Those who got by on their own, and never had to fall back on state housing, get the worst deal. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “These half-baked plans have been tried before and they’ve failed,” she said. “Half of tenants are in the social sector and half in the private,” said Ms Mackenzie. “I cannot fathom the politics - let alone the justice - of helping one group with a subsidy of up to £100,000, while offering the others only a tiddly Help to Buy ISA and equity loans that have to be repaid. Boris Johnson is reported to want to grant 2.5m housing association tenants in England the right to purchase their homes at a massive discount, in an echo of Margaret Thatcher’s popular “ right to buy” policy of the 1980s which saw a huge proportion of the nation’s stock of council homes sold.

Boris Johnson is considering reviving Margaret Thatcher's right-to-buy scheme by giving people the chance to purchase the properties they rent from housing ...

In 2015, the idea of selling off swathes of housing association properties was resurrected by David Cameron’s government. He told the London assembly: “One of the issues … is that it would be potentially extremely costly to this body. The housing expert Henry Pryor suggested the Conservatives were trying to bribe voters with a taxpayer-subsidised sale of housing association stock. There were long waiting lists for social housing because the government had failed to replace the previous homes sold off under right to buy, he added. But housing experts warned the policy amounted to the sell-off of affordable homes during the cost-of-living crisis and called instead for an increase in housebuilding. Neate said: “There could not be a worse time to sell off what remains of our last truly affordable social homes.

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His bid to revive the plans were pitched as being inspired by Margaret Thatcher giving council tenants the right to buy in 1980. Tenants would have the right to buy homes they rent from housing associations under plans thought to be under consideration by Boris Johnson. Boris Johnson considers giving housing association tenants the right to buy

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"New social housing tenants have often very high needs - that’s how they made it to the top of the epic waiting lists. But it’s much more complicated than that. Polly McKenzie, chief executive of think tank Demos, said: “All forms of Right to Buy privilege those who’ve got into social housing over those still renting in the private sector - even though those in the social sector are the ones with discounted rents and high security of tenure. “Right to Buy has already torn a massive hole in our social housing stock as less than 5% of the homes sold off have ever been replaced. Up to 100,000 new homes have been put on hold by the moratorium that affects large parts of Norfolk, Hampshire, Devon and the northeast, according to the Times. Critics accused the PM of "talking up the policies of the past" to shift attention away from the growing Parliamentary sleaze row, following the resignation of Tory MP Neil Parish for watching porn in the Commons.

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His bid to revive the plans were said to be inspired by Margaret Thatcher giving council tenants the right to buy in 1980. His government increased the discounts available to council tenants looking to buy their homes to £75,000 and £100,000 in London. The Prime Minister plans to allow housing association tenants the right to buy their homes in England. The current Right to Buy scheme in England allows council tenants to buy their homes at a discount. He is proposing for renters to be able to purchase their social homes at a discounted price - to help young people struggling to get on to the property ladder. The Prime Minister is understood to be considering plans to give tenants the right to buy their homes that they rent from housing associations, reviving the Right to Buy scheme.

MILLIONS of Britons could be given the Right to Buy their rented homes if proposals set out by the Prime Minister get the go ahead.

This would mean a major shake-up to the current system in plans that are reminiscent of the Thatcher scheme. The £150 rebate could be a lifeline to millions of Britons right now who are struggling to survive the cost of living crisis. In the run up to the local elections on Thursday May 5, details have emerged the Conservative Party could be about to announce a new scheme giving Britons the right to buy their rented homes. Boris Johnson wants up to 2.5 million tenants to be given the right to buy the homes they rent from their housing associations. MILLIONS of Britons could be given the Right to Buy their rented homes if proposals set out by the Prime Minister get the go ahead. Millions of tenants may be given the right to buy their homes in major shake up

Critics accused Boris Johnson of 'desperate stuff' as he ordered officials to draw up a new scheme for tenants.

So they are not going to be in a position to buy.” New social housing tenants have often very high needs - that’s how they made it to the top of the epic waiting lists. “The living cost crisis means more people are on the brink of homelessness than homeownership – nearly 34,000 households in England became homeless between October and December last year, more than 8,000 of them were families with children. Millions of families in the private rented sector with low savings and facing sky high-costs and rising bills, need far more ambitious plans to help them buy their own home. The Prime Minister is understood to be planning a new Right to Buy Scheme for tenants renting from housing associations. Officials in the Levelling up department are reportedly “urgently investigating” how to fight the ban on housebuilding imposed by Natural England last month which now affects 42 local authority areas.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering reintroducing the right to buy policy brought in by Margaret Thatcher - and people aren't happy.

One person wrote: “This is soo counterproductive and ideological. She continued: “These half-baked plans have been tried before and they’ve failed. The right to buy scheme gives tenants the right to purchase the social housing they rent from housing associations at a discounted price.

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