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ALMOST 40 per cent of council homes sold via “right to buy” are now being let by private landlords who are making a killing, according to Inside Housing magazine’s research published yesterday.
A total of 127,762 homes were flogged to tenants at huge discounts, Freedom of Information (FoI) requests sent to 91 local authorities reveal.
Nearly 48,000 — 38 per cent — of these property owners are registered at other addresses, suggesting that they are profiting from the ex-council homes by receiving market-level rents.
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON