Boris Johnson slammed over ‘hare-brained’ Thatcher-style plan to sell off housing association homes,

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Government proposals to sell off housing association

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warnings they will worsen the shortage of homes for more than a million Britons

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The Prime Minister understood to want a new Right to Buy Scheme for tenants

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who rent from housing associations.

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He told officials to draw up the plans in the last fortnight to help young people

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struggling to get on to the property ladder, the Telegraph reported.

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The proposal for renters to be able to purchase their social homes at a discounted price is not new,

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having been pioneered by Mrs Thatcher and first revived in David Cameron's 2015 Conservative manifesto.

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