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Are those worse off tenants really that much worse off if they have secure long term tenancies with no no fault evictions , rent controls and minimal risk of unfair rent raises meaning that they can stay in their homes for decades and will always be paying affordable rent?
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If you do all that you probably don't have to worry about BTL mortgages as no-one will be tempted to buy one. FWIW I don't think that's the end of the world, you just need to cash up housing associations to scoop up the stock that will be dumped on the market. Question is whether you allow housing associations / government to borrow money to buy property (joke).
NickCJ
There's always a tension in this argument. The strata of better-off tenants would have a better chance of buying their own place, I agree, but there is a less well-off bucket of tenants that would do worse.