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SNP MINISTERS were accused today of “reviving right to buy” in Scotland after it emerged that the first homes built under a flagship government scheme had been sold off.
News website The Ferret reported that early National Housing Trust-financed homes in Aberdeen had been swiftly put on the market.
Though the 131 homes were snapped up by Aberdeen City Council, Labour has raised concerns that there are no safeguards against homes built under the SNP scheme being transferred to the private sector.
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance
