Nothing to see here. Just Labour threatening to compulsorily purchase private

[Burney]

I still don't understand how RTB had any impact on the housing shortage, unless you're tellingm me that people who bought their council houses then demolished them.

I think the idea is that those who bought their council houses now have the temerity to still be alive and occupying them, thus denying them to the younger generation. Or, they have acquired other properties and are renting their properties out at 'exorbitant rates' (i.e. market value). In some instances, of course, they may have sold to developers who are sitting on the land until such time as it is financially advantageous for them to develop it - as is their right.

It all obscures the more fundamental demographic problems of a/ an ageing population of homeowners who aren't dying young enough to keep the housing stock moving and b/ increased demand for low income housing brought about by idiotic immigration policies.