A 35-year exemption for newly built social housing, increased eligibility of tenants and changes to discount rules are among the reforms to the Right to Buy scheme confirmed by the government.
Research has suggested that although last year’s reforms to the Right to Buy scheme led to a short term uptick in applications, the changes should begin to deliver long-term benefits soon.
Councils should be given an expanded “right of first refusal” to buy back homes disposed of under Right to Buy as part of a major drive to boost the availability of social housing, a report has...
The policy of selling off local authority homes at a discount under Right to Buy has represented a £326bn blow to council balance sheets, according to new analysis.
Richard Gawthorpe, group business development director at Norse Group, explores the UK housing crisis and what government – of all levels – might do to kickstart construction.
Tenants are rushing to buy their homes following the Right to Buy changes announced in the last Budget, according to the Local Government Association (LGA), with the LGA calling on the Government to...
Local authorities could be required to replace homes sold under Right to Buy on a like-for-like basis as part of a government plan to reverse the decline in council housing.
Decent homes in the UK are in short supply. Kate Henderson, National Housing Federation chief executive and the voice of social housing, tells PF that the crisis can be solved.
The government has been accused of economic illiteracy for failing to allow councils to use 100% of right-to-buy proceeds to improve the availability of social housing.
To build more homes, councils don’t need false limits and a Kafkaesque sting set by central government, writes Cllr Diarmaid Ward, Islington Council’s deputy leader.
The government has briefed that allowing councils to keep 100% of their right to buy receipts for two years will help increase social housing stock by thousands – but it could fail without other...
Boris Johnson is “very excited” by the prospect of allowing people who live in housing association properties to buy their homes at a discounted price, in plans critics have called “hare-brained”.
City of Edinburgh Council will progress with a £30m housing pilot which could see former council homes sold back to the authority to cover essential repairs.
Additional grant funding of around £10bn will be required if the government is to meeting social housing demand, according to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.
Tenants have received discounts of almost £5bn to help purchase council house properties since the raising of right to buy discounts in 2012, according to the Local Government Association.
Westminster must reform the Right to Buy and allow councils to keep all the receipts from homes sold under the scheme, the Local Government Association has said.
