The Right to Buy?: Selling Off Public and Social Housing

by Alan Murie

The right-to-buy scheme has been a key component of housing policy across the United Kingdom for thirty-five years, and while Scotland and Wales have decided to end it, in 2015 there were proposals to extend right to buy in England. But what exactly is this policy, how has it developed, and what has its impact been? Is there any evidence of wider, unintended consequences, and how might extending the policy affect future housing provisions? What alternatives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447332075
• ISBN13: 9781447332077
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"