Posts Tagged ‘Peter Rachman’

‘Right to buy’ has brought Rachman back from the dead

by Michael Meacher.

Since the 1980s, when Thatcher introduced the ‘right to buy’, some two million tenants of council houses/flats have bought their homes, aided by discounts of up to £60,000. The market, however, has its own way of working. Instead of producing the acclaimed ‘property-owning democracy’, it has resurrected the evil practices of the 1950s and 60s. […]

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