Elderly residents who thought they had secured their final home will have to be uprooted.
Shared ownership has the potential to help millions onto the housing ladder.
Modern centre-right politicians should focus on the cost of living, the housing crisis, worklessness, lack of educational attainment, poor quality childcare and welfare dependency.
He’s not right in every particular – far from it – but the Planning Minister’s speech was a big, brave confrontation of the Conservative Party’s electoral problems.
No wonder Tory backbenchers have nicknamed this disreputable ploy Help to Vote.
The Observer’s story was widely followed up. The problem is that it was untrue,
Are Labour MPs dishonest or just hopelessly out of touch when they say social housing swaps are unavailable to those wishing to downsize?
Hundreds of thousands of families are squeezed into cramped, overcrowded accommodation that is too small for their needs.
It is complete nonsense to say that the space standards introduced by the Mayor prevents houses being built.
The niece of the Countess of Longford doesn’t realise thousands in overcrowded social housing are desperate to swap with those affected by the cut in spare room subsidy.
Councils are fighting the battle for growth with both hands tied behind our backs. Can someone in Whitehall free us from these shackles?
I’ve long hoped that the next Tory manifesto would offer an agenda for ensuring Britain can compete in what Digby Jones has rightly called the ‘Asian century’.
A poverty measure that has so little regard for what living standards people enjoy deserves to be treated with scepticism.