Posted on: 14 April 2016
The ‘Right to Buy’ scheme was a policy introduced by Maggie Thatcher in 1980. It gave secure council tenants the legal right to buy the council home they were living in – with huge discounts. The heyday of council Right to Buys was when 1,719,368 homes in the country were sold in this manner between October 1980 and April 1998.
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