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Is Margaret Thatcher ultimately to blame for the current social housing crisis?

Her 1980 ‘Right to Buy’ policy, though popular at the time, led to the serious erosion of social housing stock and today’s itinerant population, says Kieran Yates

Margaret Thatcher visits the Parker family in Northolt, who were among the first to buy their terrace council house from Ealing Borough Council. [Alamy]
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  • All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System That Fails Us

    Kieran Yates

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