Might the existence of tenants' rights be "perverse left-wing dogma"

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/123161 Letters Shapps's vision already nearly reality Tuesday 28 August 2012  Printable  Email Right-wing think tank director Neil O'Brien said: "I don't believe anybody has the right to live in the most expensive parts of town," while Housing Minister Grant Shapps said that for local authorities to sell off vacant properties in more expensive areas was a "blindingly obvious" solution to fiscal shortfalls and stimulating home building (Tories plan ghettoes for council tenants, M Star August 20). Well, away from Ministry of Truth daily news output and BBC "home-owner TV" programme content that gets sold on to satellite channels, caps on central government funding for social housing are apparently leading some residential social landlords to attempt to do just what O'Brien and Shapps are advocating. This is despite the fact that tenanted homes containing secure tenancy agreement tenants prohibit sale of a property on the open market if the tenant does not want to be uprooted after as many as 28 years in the same location. Many are being bought by overseas investors fleeing their own dodgy economies and are then left empty. While deregulation of banking and the housing market have led to exponential growth of house prices since the 1980s,  http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/123161 Letters Shapps's vision already nearly reality Tuesday 28 August 2012  Printable  Email Right-wing think tank director Neil O'Brien said: "I don't believe anybody has the right to live in the most expensive parts of town," while Housing Minister Grant Shapps said that for local authorities to sell off vacant properties in more expensive areas was a "blindingly obvious" solution to fiscal shortfalls and stimulating home building (Tories plan ghettoes for council tenants, M Star August 20). Well, away from Ministry of Truth daily news output and BBC "home-owner TV" programme content that gets sold on to satellite channels, caps on central government funding for social housing are apparently leading some residential social landlords to attempt to do just what O'Brien and Shapps are advocating. This is despite the fact that tenanted homes containing secure tenancy agreement tenants prohibit sale of a property on the open market if the tenant does not want to be uprooted after as many as 28 years in the same location. Many are being bought by overseas investors fleeing their own dodgy economies and are then left empty. While deregulation of banking and the housing market have led to exponential growth of house prices since the 1980s, might the existence of such tenants' rights be what Mr Shapps considers "perverse left-wing dogma" standing in the way of a "free market" solution to problems caused by "free market" policies? Raymondo Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group Rev Paul Nicolson Taxpayers Against Poverty Dan Morton Social Work Action Network London If you have enjoyed this article then please consider donating to the Morning Star's Fighting Fund to ensure we can keep publishing your paper. Donate to the Fighting Fund here standing in the way of a "free market" solution to problems caused by "free market" policies? Raymondo Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group Rev Paul Nicolson Taxpayers Against Poverty Dan Morton Social Work Action Network London If you have enjoyed this article then please consider donating to the Morning Star's Fighting Fund to ensure we can keep publishing your paper. Donate to the Fighting Fund here