MPs urge social housing right to buy boost

Two leading MPs call on the Government to change the law stopping one million social housing tenants to benefit from RTB proposals.

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By Jonathan Werran | 06 January 2012

Two leading MPs have called on the Government to change the law preventing one million existing social housing tenants benefiting from revamped right to buy (RTB) proposals.

In a pamphlet released by think tank IPPR today, former Labour welfare minister Frank Field and former Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis make the case for diverting cash from such sales into improving and expanding social housing provision.

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