Boris Johnson has announced plans for a major housing shake-up - extending right to buy and allowing low earners to use housing benefit towards a mortgage.
The Prime Minister said he would extend Margaret Thatcher's 'Right to Buy' scheme to allow housing association tenants to purchase their homes at discounted rates.
People on housing benefit will be "given a new choice to put benefits towards a first ever mortgage" under the shake-up, Mr Johnson said in a speech in Blackpool.
