social housing

Is Margaret Thatcher ultimately to blame for the current social housing crisis?

24 June 2023 9:00 am

Her 1980 ‘Right to Buy’ policy, though popular at the time, led to the serious erosion of social housing stock and today’s itinerant population, says Kieran Yates

People who don’t live in council houses can’t see the appeal. Let me explain

19 January 2019 9:00 am

On turning 50, I realised I’d never own my own home. What bank would agree to give a mortgage to…

Charles Moore vs David Hare: a one-act play

12 December 2015 9:00 am

  Charles Moore and David Hare sit in the editor’s office at The Spectator, Hare on a brown leather chesterfield,…

Why housing associations are the true villains of the property crisis

25 July 2015 9:00 am

The trouble with housing associations