Yet another article on the biggest myth in British housing discourse. Council (and private) housebuilding started to decline over a decade before Right to Buy, as the planning system (which already walloped supply in 1947) tightened yet further with the spread of the green belt:
Yet another article on the biggest myth in British housing discourse. Council (and private) housebuilding started to decline over a decade before Right to Buy, as the planning system (which already walloped supply in 1947) tightened yet further with the spread of the green belt: https://t.co/q2u3qKKY7C
@AntBreach You are attacking a straw man: we never claimed that RtB was the SOLE or triggering force generating today's UK housing crises. It was a step along the way. Other factors include financialisation, income distribution, tax incentives, pursuit of asset prices…
@michaellondonsf I don't think it's a strawman when it's in the article!
@michaellondonsf @AntBreach ....anything else?