I write in response to your article (Something is stirring in England: right to buy looks imperilled, and not a moment too soon, 12 May). Whoever wins the election will face a housing crisis that is not easy to fathom a way out of. Right to buy, along with buy-to-let mortgages, has created wealth for some at the expense of others. Social renters and “Generation Rent” are left out of the equation.
I was born into the slummiest part of London’s Notting Hill. So slummy that it could not be saved for the middle-class colonisation of Notting Hill that overran the former poor housing stock and transformed it to a romcom film set. In the 1970s, the local authority pulled down not just our house but our street, and the streets around it, replacing it with a large social housing estate.
