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As the highly contentious Housing and Planning Bill ploughs through Parliament, Lords, experts, local leaders and ministers from all corners are voicing their discontent. Sam Clayden examines why the right to buy is causing such uproar.

As the highly contentious Housing and Planning Bill ploughs through Parliament, Lords, experts, local leaders and ministers from all corners are voicing their discontent. Sam Clayden examines why the right to buy is causing such uproar.

Few would disagree David Cameron's aspiration to revolutionise home ownership is admirable, but as he attempts to breathe life into Margaret Thatcher's right to buy policy by extending it to housing association tenants, the Housing and Planning Bill is being met with resistance on all fronts.

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