Quote Originally Posted by TISS View Post
I don't disagree with what you have written but you've not answered the question, which was how does changing legal title affect supply and demand? It doesnt.

You also ignore the cash inflow from selling stock which can be used to reinvest in public services elsewhere / pay off debt / so on.

Previously homeownership was the preserve of the rich, then the middle classes and then, due to this policy, the less well off. If this was a labour policy it would be lauded but since its a tory policy (and a thatcher one to boot), somehow aspiring to own your own home and policies to go with it is deemed wrong.

Getting to the crux of your complaint is not the sell off but the lack of building new stock. That's something that has affected all governments and isn't related to selling off stock at all, it's lack of investment and desire tomake things happen
But what was the aim/point of it all?? For home ownership to be extended to the less well off for one generation? Because that is all that right to buy achieved. Now we are back to a situation where the majority can't really afford to buy only now there is less of a safety net.