Tories pledge "right to move " housing

A paper entitled "strong Foundations" by the Conservative party says that if elected to government it would allow Council tenants would be given a "right to move" to other parts of England without losing their accommodation.

Under the proposed Tory scheme councils could be forced to purchase homes in other areas to help people who wish to relocate to find work, and Tenants would get the right to demand that their landlord sell their current home and use the proceeds to buy another property elsewhere.

Other policies expected to be outlined in the housing paper, to be launched by shadow communities secretary Caroline Spelman and shadow housing minister Grant Shapps, include plans to incentivise local authority house building targets and move away from centrally-driven ones.

Housing minister Iain Wright accused the Tories of wanting to cut £800 million from the housing budget. He added: "These are old ideas re-hashed to sound new, but as always there is no detail as to how much they will cost or how they will be delivered."