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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 15 June 2026

Debate

Social Housing Bill [HL]

Contribution

I have one final point. I say this as someone who has lived in three separate homes, all in London, that had at some point gone from the social sector through right to buy. In each one of those blocks, I knew people who ended up in the most enormously difficult circumstances with right to buy, because they had borrowed a great deal of money and then they suddenly got a huge bill from the council to replace the roof, fix the lift or whatever, and they were just not able to stay in the home that they had hoped to stay in.

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