Boris Johnson has announced big changes - or, at least, big headlines - to England’s housing system.
Thatcher’s ‘right to buy’ at discounted rates will be extended to 2.5million housing association tenants in a shake-up first proposed seven years ago.
And the most eye-catching - and controversial - proposal is what the PM nicknamed “benefits to bricks”. For the first time 1.5million working housing benefit claimants will be allowed to pay their benefits into a mortgage.
