The right to buy policy is working but it needs to go further.
Conservative councils have risen to the challenge.
Today’s sample of councils in our Right to Buy Replacement Week series are managing two new homes for each one sold.
But in Hull and Bristol the “one for one” requirement is on course to be missed.
A sample of councils shows them on course to provide over a 1,100 replacements for 774 homes sold.
Labour is the Party of the queue. Do you want to send your daughter to the best local school? Tough. Do you want a new home for your family? Tough.
There is plenty of state land that could be sold – but the skills shortage in the building industry is severe.
By rewarding work more than 200,000 people have come off Housing Benefits altogether.
Where mistakes have been made it should be possible overturn them.
Councillors need not be passive as planning officers push through ugly developments.
How can we get new homes of the sort Londoners want to see?
There is funding for 2.2 new homes for each one sold under the Right to Buy.
Modernisation of the current arrangements for leases would bring the arrangements into line with modern housing choices.
Hagiographies of the post-war Labour Government are misplaced.
For every safe home we make for our refugee neighbours, we could build up to another two or more homes to meet current domestic need, across all tenures.