
Reviving Right to Buy for social housing leaves private tenants out in the cold
It’s not bad policy, but it isn’t obvious why one group is deserving of so much more support than the other.
It’s not bad policy, but it isn’t obvious why one group is deserving of so much more support than the other.
It’s the worst form of gesture politics in practice – that substitutes for the urgent need for more housing.
Ensuring that everyone has a decent, affordable and secure home is one of the fundamental public policy challenges of our time.
Ultimately, we have to prevent vulnerable people from ever reaching the streets. We should seize this opportunity to work out how.
The key is not just to get homes built, but to provide realistic pathways to ownership for middle- and working-class families.
We are calling for the development of a hardship loan scheme for tenants, similar to those in Wales and Scotland.
The Green Home Grant Scheme wasn’t ambitious enough – and their willingness to give up on it speaks volumes.
MPs seem to think ‘it doesn’t affect me, so I’ll think about it later’ when they hear complaints from Generation Rent.
The best protection for the latter would be Government-guaranteed hardship loans.
A major part of the problem is high tax rates driven by borrowing for higher education courses that they’d be better off not taking.
Four proposals to help engender a sustainable balance between the rights of landlords and renters.
The next step is for a commission to be established that can develop solutions to the current inequalities we have seen.
By using the new grant as an incentiv those who are looking to buy would be more likely to buy a new build, enabling supply to continue.
One area that has had relatively little attention, but could get much more, is the behaviour of commercial landlords across the country.
The job now needs to be completed by shoring up workers’ incomes and firms’ revenues to as close to 100 per cent as is practical.