The houses likely to be sold have not been individually identified,
- but The Press understands that they are older, pre-1920s properties in affluent areas of the city such as Clifton Green and Bootham, where properties sell for high values.
York’s Labour housing boss Cllr Michael Pavlovic stressed that ‘absolutely nobody’ would be evicted from their council homes – and that properties would only be gradually sold off over a period of years as they became vacant.
But the authority’s Lib Dem opposition leader Cllr Nigel Ayre said the idea of selling off council homes in expensive areas of York was like ‘Conservative policies in London that Labour previously referred to as “social cleansing on a vast scale”’.
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A riverside path in York has closed due to "structural damage".
TRIBUTES are being paid to war veteran Joseph Thomas who has died aged 99 and will have a memorial funeral service at York Minster tomorrow (Wednesday, January 22).
