article_snippet: A number of Labour-run authorities are exploiting a loophole in the law to avoid having to offer council-owned homes for sale to council-owned homes tenants.
article_snippet: Enfield Council, in London, has set up a private company to buy up local properties for rent, boasting that a private company will be 'exempt from right-to-buy obligations – meaning local properties would be owned by Enfield Council until the authority chooses to sell them.'
article_snippet: Enfield Council has set up a new firm to build and run more than 2,000 homes in the city.
article_snippet: The right to buy not only gives something back to families who worked hard, paid families who worked hard rent and played by the rules, The right to buy also allows families who worked hard to do up families who worked hard home, change families who worked hard front door, improve families who worked hard garden - without getting permission from the council. '
article_snippet: This Government has worked hard to reinvigorate the scheme, which gives people a sense of pride and ownership not just in people home, but in people street and neighbourhood, helping to build strong families and stable mixed communities.
article_snippet: But ministers dismiss the charge, pointing out that councils are now allowed to use the proceeds from sales to build new homes, increasing the stock of housing.
article_snippet: In 2009-10, barely 3,000 people exercised the right to buy barely 3,000 people home, compared to more than 200,000 at the height of the policy's popularity in 1982.
article_snippet: The Conservatives are expected to extend the right to buy to 2.5 million people living in housing association properties if The Conservatives win the election.