article_snippet.sent: scheme allows tenants living in council-owned properties local authority tenants to buy houses and flats at a discount of as much as 70 per cent up to a maximum of £102,700 in London and £77,000 across the rest of England.
article_snippet.sent: The Conservatives plan would extend scheme to people living in properties owned by housing associations - not-for-profit bodies that receive public money and loans from the private sector to provide low-cost homes.
article_snippet.sent: their manifesto doesn't even add up, their manifesto's not even affordable as the housing industry has said.'
article_snippet.sent: 'their manifesto will not help people who don't presently live in people who don't presently live in their own home own home, their manifesto does not help the youngsters who are living with mum and dad and want to move out, their manifesto does not help the millions of people in private rented accommodation who want to own people who don't presently live in their own home own home. '
article_snippet.sent: As the housing industry has said, actually under The Conservatives plan you will see affordable housing go down rather than go up.'