Extending right-to-buy could make crisis worse

摘要

Editor: The Conservatives' plan to extend right-to-buy is bad politics as well as bad policy. This worked well in 1979, but voters are too astute to be swayed by the same policy card played twice. We have 3.4 million people on local authorities' housing waiting lists, representing some 1.4 million households, yet we are building less than one 10th of that number of new homes each year.