The Right to Buy?
eBook - ePub

The Right to Buy?

Selling off public and social housing

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Right to Buy?

Selling off public and social housing

About this book

The Right to Buy has had a massive impact on Housing in the UK for 35 years and in 2015 there were proposals to extend it. But what is the Right to Buy policy, how has it developed and what has its impact been? What evidence is there about the wider and unintended consequences of the policy? How are the proposals to extend the policy in England likely to affect future housing provision and what alternatives are there?

In The Right to Buy, Alan Murie provides an authoritative account of the origins, development and impact of the policy across the UK and proposals for its extension in England (and decisions to end it in Scotland and Wales). Presenting up-to-date statistical material the book engages with debates about transfers to private renting, the impact on public expenditure and on the current housing situation, addresses the proposals for new legislation and details the potential impact of these. It is an essential read for anyone interested in this highly topical issue.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of tables and figures
  6. About the author
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Selling public housing: precursors and preconditions
  10. 3 A policy history of the Right to Buy, 1980-2015
  11. 4 Statistics and impacts of the Right to Buy
  12. 5 A policy commentary
  13. 6 The next phase: extending the Right to Buy in England
  14. 7 Conclusions: public and social housing: slow death or new beginnings?
  15. References