A "major milestone" in Scottish housing policy will be marked on Sunday with the end of Right to Buy.

Margaret Thatcher's flagship policy, introduced in 1980, has seen almost half a million council and housing association homes in Scotland bought by their tenants.

The legislation underwent various amendments from Westminster and Holyrood governments before finally being scrapped with the passing of the Housing (Scotland) Act of 2014.

The Scottish Government has set a target of 50,000 new affordable homes over the lifetime of the current parliament, 35,000 of which will be social housing.

Shelter Scotland's director Graeme Brown said the end of Right to Buy should be a stepping stone towards a new national strategy to tackle the country's housing crisis.

He said: "It is good news that Right to Buy has finally had its day in Scotland. It has no place in Scotland's housing system today.

"What Scotland desperately needs now is a step change in the delivery of affordable housing. We need to build at least 12,000 new affordable homes a year to meaningfully tackle Scotland's housing crisis. We also need a new national homelessness strategy to get to grips with the root causes of homelessness.

"Only with these progressive changes will we start to address the profound damage caused to our housing system by policies like Right to Buy and the decades of under-investment in affordable housing."