The Right to Buy

CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 5

Where this source is used

• The House of Commons Library reports that more desirable council properties tended to be bought by relatively affluent tenants.

  • supports · printed pp. 12–13

• Right to Buy supplies evidence about one documented Conservative Party program and its institutions, not a definition of conservatism or of every conservative housing policy.

  • context · printed pp. 7–8

• The House of Commons Library records that Conservative manifestos increasingly committed the party to a statutory Right to Buy before the 1980 enactment.

  • supports · printed p. 7, paragraphs 2–3

• The House of Commons Library reports that the remaining council sector acquired a narrower and lower-income social base.

  • supports · printed pp. 14–15

• The House of Commons Library records amendments from 1984 through 1996 that changed eligibility, discounts, resale penalties, mortgages, and related purchase schemes.

  • supports · printed pp. 8–9, ‘Further legislation on the Right to Buy’