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Over a third of London homes flogged on the cheap under Thatcher's right to buy scheme have fallen into the hands of private landlords, a London Assembly Member revealed yesterday.
Labour AM Tom Copley revealed that 52,000 former council properties are now being let at inflated prices - driving up Britain's housing benefits bill.
He described the Tory sell-off as a "Whitehall-sanctioned robbery of the taxpayer" which has left councils with huge housing waiting lists.
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON