<sod >The Government is set to extend the controversial Right to Buy policy, which allows renters in social housing to purchase their homes at significant discounts, to tens of thousands of new properties being built to ease the housing crisis, The Independent can reveal.< eod>< sod > The Government is set to extend the controversial Right to Buy policy to tens of thousands of new properties being built to ease the housing crisis Ã¢ÂÂ amid warnings the move willÃÂ "jepordise" future affordable house building.< eod>