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MARGARET THATCHER’S 1980s Tory government became notorious for its championing of council tenants’ right to buy their homes at a discount.
The benefit to existing tenants was clear — the chance to own their own home, becoming part of what the Tories called a property-owning democracy.
Some tenants overstretched themselves and lost their homes as rising interest rates pushed mortgage repayments beyond their capability.
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
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