We call it Timebomb: The Great Council Housing Selloff for 2024, which is a crisis hidden in the sight of Editia Chairporte

PPerhaps England can make its politician at the moment that died more than a decade ago. After running channel 4 and watched Margaret Tischer: drama. Radio 4 Margaret Thatcher: The Play, while you can soon enjoy that the other: The Opera. For those who cannot wait, there is Tatcher: the news story, where the British media celebrates 50 years this week since the Conservative Party leader was crowned.

Such pieces are reliably fascinated by how they look (Shoulder pads! handbag! blond Halo!What I did. So let me tell you a story about one of the actions of Tasher that constitutes how we live today. Instead of some of the dusty story that came out of the archive, it is now unveiled. And you will not see it in any other newspaper.

At its core, this pioneer is in Tatshri: the right to buy. Its greatest privatization allowed the tenants from the houses that it built and owned by the public to buy it at a deal price. The policy was launched in 1980, still is valid today – although it was believed that its peak was in the past long. Even, this is, Kiir Starmer is the Prime Minister.

Among the first actions of the Starmer government, it was the reduction of the opponent available to the assemblies who want to buy their homes. In London, the pieces are especially sharp: before the deadline on November 21 2024, it can reach 136,400 pounds; Now it is 16,000 pounds. It is a good step, pressing the demand and everything except strangling the Tatcher policy to death. It is also an exciting step – but how dramatic is not public. To find out, I sent requests for freedom of information to every London Council.

You may think you know what will happen next. Perhaps you can determine that, as it was on the deadline, there was a stream of attention. Error: There was no stream. There was a flood.

Of the 32 London region, 27 responded. After analyzing their results, I can reveal:

• Brent witnessed an increase of more than 7,000 % in the right to purchase requests (RTB) in November during the previous month; In Lambeth and Camden, it was more than 2000 %, for Southwark, 1500 %.

• The flooding of requests in November means that Louisham deals with more bids in this fiscal year more than he received in the previous four years that have been collected, while hanee runs the equivalent of more than three years of potential buyers.

• Isington got 922 RTB request in November alone, as you usually expect closer to 200 over a full year.

• With the continued leaving the months of this fiscal year, the London authorities received together 3.5 times the RTB requests they obtained last year.

Whether it is the north or the south of the river, the inner city, or the external suburb, the pattern is unambiguous and blatant. She was pressured for years of discounts, which are surrounded by the spending pressure that local authorities face now, and I also heard in a phone call after a phone call, there was an “explosion” in the applications; A “amazing” number of bids; A “unprecedented” request. See only this chart, and the map, which shows the right to purchase applications throughout this year. They are basically flat until November – then the missile.

The right to purchase applications

Application map

In the largest owner in London, Southwark, where more than 1,300 were flooded during the first three weeks of November, they formulate additional employees to deal with fraud checks and other procedures, so that the team can swell to its usual size. Nevertheless, the legal deadlines, they told me they appreciated that it would take more than 19 weeks to reach the first stages.

What this town describes is a low -level chaos, and it is not in any way limited to London. In other big cities, councils face the same thing: a snowstorm of the leaves is very large so that employees cannot deal with them, and a good percentage of budget or defective bids, and there is absolutely no certainty of the number of the council’s homes in the end. Take, for example, Lewisham, where, over the past two years, about half of all RTB applications have led to sales. Apply the same percentage to the bids that were received last November alone, and in a stroke, the town will lose almost the number of council’s homes that have been built since 2020.

We call it remnants: Good times, if this is what they were, you have long wore and now all that remains is dust in the head and costs that never stop the height. Its most famous policy, the right to buy, shows how alcohol headache never stops. Public funds have been spent on building these houses; Public funds were lost by giving them cheap. Public funds are now transferred in housing entitlements for real estate owners who allowed them to leave.

Gold last November reveals the mockery of this country about democracy that always possesses property. Owning property? For some, but for others, try: stirring property, renting property, and accumulated property – is done on cheap with taxpayer money. While the private sector keeps it, the public sector is deprived of rental revenues and is forced to conduct more despair measures for tenants. In my country in London in the town of Infield, there are no families who live anywhere else to live It has now been shipped To the previous mining villages in Durham Province.

In Southwark, they believe they have lost 16,000 homes over the decades with the right to buy. About half of these are now rented for the tenants who may have been obtained from the council, with safer rental and contracts. “By depriving councils from homes, the right to purchase is the security that allows children to end the school or their parents to maintain their jobs,” says Kiron Williams, leader of the Southuark Council. “The rise in homelessness is a direct result of the right to buy.”

Starmerism is a small pool of small ideas, but it maintains a focus on building things: infrastructure, homes and new towns. The ministers talk about large numbers of home construction, yet they refuse to set goals in building the council’s house. Starmer focuses on housing supplies, which is not given by the most intelligent policy. She was only interested in the request – the request from Ha People, their voters, who in turn reward them with three wins in the elections. Without the help of the focus group, the Starmer team hardly knows their people. They will not come out and argue with more role. At best, they will do the right thing, but by hiding, in small printing, where they hope you will never find GB news.

But you need more than this comedy from errors-pushing a terrible policy outside the stage, which sparked another huge sale in this process and stimulates another decrease in housing in the council. You really need an alternative. In the Wandsworth Council, Idin Dikrdim is the bullets in the Cabinet for Housing. Although he does not oppose the right to purchase, he talks about the need to build a council’s homes, to expand the concepts of what the general world can provide.

“My mother and my father lived in the property of the Council, and my mother was a teacher. Today this will be completely Utopia.” But it was not a generation. Within a generation, we lost a feeling of public assets and public housing. But this means that we can also restore it in a generation. “