Right to Buy Articles

New research published by Sadiq Khan shows just how unaffordable the private rented sector has become in London Londoners are on average spending more than half of their pre-tax incomes on rent in 20 of the 32 London boroughs. Whilst the two worst boroughs are –...

A one-bedroom former council flat in Kensington and Chelsea is for sale at £355,000. A two-bedroom flat in a Fulham Road council block was bought recently for £1m. Eventually, almost every vacant council dwelling in this borough will have to be sold to pay for the...

As the three Labour councillors for Whitefoot Ward in the London borough of Lewisham, we have a very good working relationship with our local social housing provider, Phoenix Community Housing, who took over the running of the housing stock from Lewisham council in...

You have to be pretty out of touch with reality to go into an election, during a severe housing shortage, with a measure that will reduce the availability of affordable homes across the country. That is what the Tories did in promising to introduce the right to buy...