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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

Explore the 120 Right to Buy homes councils have lost millions rebuying – and find out why Labour’s reforms might not stop Yo-yo Homes

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

A reader says poverty can be eradicated if we first eradicate 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

Party leaders and MPs react after Big Issue reveals councils losing millions by buying back Right to Buy homes

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

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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

Labour wants to shake-up the controversial Right to Buy scheme with these three steps
Right to buy

Labour wants to shake-up the controversial Right to Buy scheme with these three steps

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

‘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’

How a council used a little-known 20-year-old law to seize properties off a rogue landlord
RENTING

How a council used a little-known 20-year-old law to seize properties off a rogue landlord

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

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Should we end Thatcher’s Right to Buy? How scrapping scheme could help solve UK’s housing crisis
Right to Buy

Should we end Thatcher’s Right to Buy? How scrapping scheme could help solve UK’s housing crisis

We need social housing so young people can grow up without homelessness – it just makes sense
Tom Kerridge

We need social housing so young people can grow up without homelessness – it just makes sense

More than four in 10 council homes sold under Right to Buy now owned by private landlords
Social housing

More than four in 10 council homes sold under Right to Buy now owned by private landlords

Local authority funding crisis ‘putting future of council housing under threat’
Social housing

Local authority funding crisis ‘putting future of council housing under threat’