The right to buy
The Prime Minister floated the idea of granting housing association tenants a blanket right to buy. How many social homes have been sold over the years?
– Since 1980, 2.19m homes have been sold in England. The most sold in any one year was 167,123 in 1982/83 and the fewest was 8,474 in 2008/09. In 2020/21, 17,262 were sold. Although receipts from sales are supposed to fund replacement dwellings, this has not happened. Since 2010, when the Conservatives returned to power, 235,460 social homes have been sold. But the overall number of social homes has grown only by 94,000, from 3.972m to 4.066m.
Abortion rates
The US Supreme Court appeared to be on the verge of overturning Roe vs Wade, which would end US-wide right to abortion and leave the matter to individual states. Which states have the highest and lowest abortion rates per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44?
Highest
New Jersey 28.0
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