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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Mark Banham

Shelter boss slams PM’s housing association right-to-buy plans as ‘gimmick’

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been carpeted by Shelter boss Polly Neate for taking housing stock out of the market

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The Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to allow housing association tenants to buy their properties at knock down prices under right-to-buy has been slammed as a “dangerous gimmick” by the boss of one of Britain’s largest homeless charities Shelter.

Polly Neate, chief executive of the charity said that the plans announced today were “baffling” and “unworkable” and would sell off the “little truly affordable” housing left.

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