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Right to Buy for council homes in England could be scrapped for new builds: what is changing and why it has been debated for decades

The Labour government is restricting the Right to Buy scheme: the prime minister has announced that the right to buy will be removed for new social homes. The BBC examines how the policy has changed England since 1980, who won and who lost, and why critics and defenders agree on one thing — the problem was not the sale of homes but the failure to replace them with new ones. The Labour government is restricting the Right to Buy scheme: the prime minister has announced that the right to buy will be removed for new social homes. The BBC examines how the policy since 1980 has changed England, who won and who lost, and why critics and defenders agree on one thing — the problem was not the sale of homes, but the failure to replace them with new ones.

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