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

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: 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

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
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: Thatcher at 100
What are Yo-yo Homes? The former council houses making ex-tenants rich

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

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

The fall of Angela Rayner emphasises the rise in power of property ownership
Labour wants to shake-up the controversial Right to Buy scheme with these three steps

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’

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’

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

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

‘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

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

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’

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

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’

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

Four problems Labour must solve to deliver the social housing Britain urgently needs
Council spending on homelessness triples in eight years

Council spending on homelessness triples in eight years
Should we end Thatcher’s Right to Buy? How scrapping scheme could help solve UK’s housing crisis

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

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

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’

