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Sadiq Khan condemns ‘unfair profiteering’ from sales of Right to Buy homes back to councils
Yo-yo Homes

Sadiq Khan condemns ‘unfair profiteering’ from sales of Right to Buy homes back to councils

Mayor reacts after Big Issue reveals how the capital’s councils have lost tens of millions buying back homes they owned just a few years previously

Councils buy back £34m of ex-Right to Buy homes for over 3x sale price in ‘economic madness’
Yo-yo Homes

Councils buy back £34m of ex-Right to Buy homes for over 3x sale price in ‘economic madness’

Big Issue discovers fate of 445 council homes sold under Right to Buy for £35.7m, then repurchased for nearly £100m, as taxpayers lose out on Yo-yo Homes

Labour council blocks bid to reveal extent of Yo-yo Home losses: ‘Why would they try and hide this?’
Yo-yo Homes

Labour council blocks bid to reveal extent of Yo-yo Home losses: ‘Why would they try and hide this?’

Big Issue exposed £2.5 million that Swindon’s council lost on Yo-yo Homes in the past five years. Its politicians have just voted against revealing the last decade’s financial toll

Revealed: Council sells homes for £10m under Right to Buy – then spends £33m buying them back
Yo-yo Homes

Revealed: Council sells homes for £10m under Right to Buy – then spends £33m buying them back

The Yo-yo Home files: These are the Right to Buy properties councils have lost millions on buying back
Yo-yo Homes

The Yo-yo Home files: These are the Right to Buy properties councils have lost millions on buying back

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Letters: The system creating poverty must be eradicated. That system is capitalism
Letters

Letters: The system creating poverty must be eradicated. That system is capitalism

Yo-yo Homes ‘indefensible’ and highlight broken system, MPs say after Big Issue’s Right to Buy exposé
Right to Buy

Yo-yo Homes ‘indefensible’ and highlight broken system, MPs say after Big Issue’s Right to Buy exposé

Reversing Right to Buy may sound radical. But it could fix the housing shortage
Peter Apps

Reversing Right to Buy may sound radical. But it could fix the housing shortage

Inside the Big Issue: Thatcher at 100
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Thatcher at 100

What are Yo-yo Homes? The former council houses making ex-tenants rich
Housing

What are Yo-yo Homes? The former council houses making ex-tenants rich

The ‘Yo-yo Homes’, revealed: How ex-council tenants make over £200k selling homes back to councils
Housing

The ‘Yo-yo Homes’, revealed: How ex-council tenants make over £200k selling homes back to councils

The fall of Angela Rayner emphasises the rise in power of property ownership
John Bird

The fall of Angela Rayner emphasises the rise in power of property ownership

Right to Buy sold us down the river
Paul McNamee

Right to Buy sold us down the river

Craig David returns to childhood social home in plea to build: ‘I could play my melodies and dream’
Social Housing

Craig David returns to childhood social home in plea to build: ‘I could play my melodies and dream’

Andy Burnham: ‘Right to Buy scheme means homelessness will get worse before it gets better’
Homelessness

Andy Burnham: ‘Right to Buy scheme means homelessness will get worse before it gets better’

Right to Buy sales are set to plummet – but Labour is still facing £50bn bill to fix housing crisis
Housing crisis

Right to Buy sales are set to plummet – but Labour is still facing £50bn bill to fix housing crisis

Landlords are threatening an ‘exodus’ by selling up. What will happen to renters’ homes if they do?
Renting

Landlords are threatening an ‘exodus’ by selling up. What will happen to renters’ homes if they do?

‘We must remove the shackles of stigma’: Five ways Labour wants to shake-up Right to Buy
Right to Buy

‘We must remove the shackles of stigma’: Five ways Labour wants to shake-up Right to Buy

What Labour’s autumn budget means for the housing crisis and homelessness
Autumn budget

What Labour’s autumn budget means for the housing crisis and homelessness

Benefits bill pushes government spending on housing to highest level since records began
Housing crisis

Benefits bill pushes government spending on housing to highest level since records began

Suspend Right to Buy to help tackle social housing crisis, government told: ‘It’s exploitative’
Right to Buy

Suspend Right to Buy to help tackle social housing crisis, government told: ‘It’s exploitative’

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Labour urged to set social housing targets and kickstart a ‘council house revolution’
Housing

Labour urged to set social housing targets and kickstart a ‘council house revolution’

Four problems Labour must solve to deliver the social housing Britain urgently needs
Social housing

Four problems Labour must solve to deliver the social housing Britain urgently needs

Council spending on homelessness triples in eight years
Homelessness

Council spending on homelessness triples in eight years

Labour manifesto: What we learned about Keir Starmer’s plan to end the UK’s housing crisis
General election 2024

Labour manifesto: What we learned about Keir Starmer’s plan to end the UK’s housing crisis