The high-value social housing sell-off plan in England has sparked angry reactions from campaigners which they say could affect older and disabled people in the country.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has called on ministers to rethink about the Housing and Planning Bill which is yet to be approved by the House of Lords.
If the bill is passed, local authorities will be compelled to sell high-value properties once vacant. Under the plan, some 15,300 council-owned bungalows in England will be sold off by 2021.
The government says the bill is aimed at making more people as home owners. But campaigners say the increasing reliance on costly, insecure tenancies in the private-rented sector to house families on low incomes will only serve to trap more people in poverty.
“The housing bill would reduce the number of affordable homes at a time of an acute housing crisis,” Brian Robson, from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said.
“We risk holding a great British…