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Right to Buy didn't destroy the housing market. The same people who lived in council housing bought it under Right to Buy.

The problem was not building more housing to cope with increased demand. That would've happened regardless of whether the Right to Buyers were renting off the council or had bought their property.

> In the world the state builds and owns a lot public housing and this depresses rents and property values.

Public housing, but not housing. The state controls what can be built where, which can drive up demand enough that property becomes a valuable enough asset to let it stand empty. Giving the state more power on top of that to correct that incompetent use of power seems worth questioning.



But you can't keep building ... that's not good for the environment!

It's society enforcing these restrictions, and we absolutely do not want to let go of them. Compromising at all on any of them is considered evil ...




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