Revealed: the scale of ex-RTB home conversions to private rent

Insight07.12.17by Nathaniel Barker

In 2015, Inside Housing revealed that 37.6% of former Right to Buy homes were being rented privately. Two years later, Nathaniel Barker finds the number creeping up. Photography by Alamy

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