A Green MP wants councils to buy properties from private landlords.
In a letter to The Guardian, Sian Berry sarcastically says “my heart obviously breaks for distressed buy to let landlords”.
She then goes on to say that government should fund councils to snap up homes being sold by landlords.
She writes local authorities should be “buying back right to buy homes, or snapping up suitable houses that are put on the market.”
She says: “This can achieve immediate, construction-risk-free social homes near existing schools, parks and health services.”
Berry – whose constituency is in Brighton – says this is a fast, good value addition to the existing house building programme.
“Instead of ‘gently’ hiking up rents, landlords could instead take advantage of a soft landing from a properly funded government programme.”
She ends her letter with another comment about landlords: “Their newly burdensome cash cow should become someone’s longed-for home.”
This article is taken from Landlord Today