@melyorktt.bsky.social's The Sunday Times article analyses the impact of 45yrs of right-to-buy.
It highlights our UK Housing Review research that shows 50yrs ago 95% of state spending on housing was on building homes & 5% on benefits. By 2022 this reversed to 88% on benefits & 12% on building homes
Forty-five years since council tenants were encouraged to join the ‘property-owning democracy’, has Margaret Thatcher’s flagship scheme backfired? Melissa York meets right-to-buy’s winners and losers
