Tory-led Harrow council in northwest London is offering up to £38,000 to council tenants if they move out of council properties into the private housing market – and anywhere in the world will do.
In a futile attempt to resolve the housing crisis in northwest London – the borough has just 5,000 homes and a further 4,000 people on its waiting lists – the council is trying to bribe people to move out of the borough, out of London, with even the suggestion of moving overseas.
In a more practical suggestion – but one the government will not countenance – the London Assembly’s Housing Committee has called for the suspension of the “right to buy” for newly built council homes. ■