The long road which led to more than 9,000 Nottingham households being on housing waiting listIn Nottingham, upwards of 25,000 homes have been sold through Right to Buy, more than halving the city's council housing stockView 3 Images The Nottingham skyline (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Nottingham Post)There are now more than 9,000 households on the council and social housing waiting list in Nottingham alone. ‌The foundations for this crisis were laid by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in the 1980s with its Right to Buy policy. The overall stock of council housing has plummeted since the early 1980s, from 5.1 million to 1.6 million as of 2024. ‌Labour-led Nottingham proclaimed it was simply “not possible” for replacement to keep pace with sales, leaving thousands on the waiting list. In Nottingham, four in ten former council homes bought under the Right to Buy policy are now in private landlords’ hands.