New Scottish Government plans for housing are to deny thousands of families the chance to buy their council house as Ministers want to scrap the right to buy that tenants currently have. The proposal has had mixed reviews with the Tory’s describing it as ‘political vandalism’ while charities welcomed the change in legislation as part of a new Housing Bill.
The right to buy was introduced by Margaret Thatcher and has no doubt helped hundreds of thousands of Scottish residents get on the housing ladder. Under the current legislation, tenants who have been in a council owned property for more than 5 years are able to buy it at a reduced price.
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