AS2011: Osborne pledges right-to-buy boost
29 November 2011 14:57
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The government's latest attempt to unblock the housing market will be the "reinvigoration" of the right-to-buy initiative with houses available to council tenants at up to 50% below the full market value.
Chancellor George Osborne said in the Autumn Statement that the right-to-buy of the 1980s had been one of the best social policies of any government.
He added that the last Labour government had "strangled" the right-to-buy movement by reducing discounts.
Receipts from the sale of council homes will be used to build new additional affordable homes.
Typical – once again – the hard-working squeezed middle continue to have to pay full Market rate whilst those already aided by the taxpayer reap ever more reward!
By Mark Wright
Bang on Marky!
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