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7 Feb 19
The number of social rent homes in England has plummeted by 165,697 in just six years, analysis by a trade body has found. ...
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21 Jan 19
London councils are spending more than £22m each year renting back homes sold under right to buy, research has found.
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28 Nov 18
Social housing sales outstripped the creation of new units in England by a factor of three to one last year, government figures revealed.
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4 Oct 18
Right to buy is costing English councils £1bn - £300m net - a year and cutting the discounts could lead to an extra 12,000 homes being built every year, a trade body has said.
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21 Aug 18
The long-awaited social housing green paper, published last week, pledged to support local authorities to build more. But the Chartered Institute of Housing’s David Pipe says it did not go far...
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17 Aug 18
The government has launched a pilot allowing housing association tenants to buy their social homes.
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12 Jun 18
Only one third of councils will be able to replace homes sold under the right to buy scheme in five years’ time, council leaders have warned.
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27 Apr 18
Local authorities have spent millions on renting housing that they previously owned for temporary accommodation, research by a trade magazine has found.
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2 Feb 18
The rate at which right to buy discounts have been handed out in the past six years has sparked a social housing ‘firesale’, the Local Government Association has warned.
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15 Nov 17
The Right to Buy scheme could “grind to a halt” because local authorities do not have the cash to replace sold homes, the Local Government Association has warned.
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12 Sep 16
The first housing association tenants have exercised the right to buy their homes under the government’s extension of the scheme across the social housing sector.
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11 Aug 16
Just 17% of council homes sold under the Right to Buy scheme in 2015-16 were replaced, an analysis by the Local Government Association has found.
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29 Apr 16
The Public Accounts Committee today slammed the government’s “entirely speculative” approach to its plan to extend Right to Buy discounts to 1.3 million housing association tenants.
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3 Mar 16
Bungalows and other homes for older people could make up as much as a quarter of council properties sold to fund a controversial government extension to the Right to Buy scheme, a report has...
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10 Feb 16
MPs have today raised concerns about government plans extend Right to Buy to housing association tenants through a levy on local authorities.
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29 Jan 16
As many as 80,000 council houses could be lost by 2020 under government reforms to extend Right to Buy unless councils are given greater powers to build new homes, the Local Government Association...
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26 Jan 16
Government proposals to extend the Right to Buy to housing association tenants – and to fund the reform through council house sales – would reverse a “renaissance” in development, social housing...
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27 Oct 15
Government plans that would see local authorities funding the extension of Right to Buy to social housing tenants mean “the end of localism”, a Labour shadow cabinet member has said.
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14 Oct 15
Further details of plans to sell high-value council houses to fund the extension of Right to Buy to housing association tenants has been revealed in legislation introduced to parliament.
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5 Oct 15
CIPFA has warned that extending the Right to Buy council homes could strip local authorities of their asset bases.
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25 Sep 15
Communities secretary Greg Clark has indicated he is willing to agree a deal with housing associations that would implement the government’s Right-to-Buy proposals for the sector without the need for...
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16 Sep 15
Communities secretary Greg Clark has been urged to review the government’s housing policies after research found that only one in eight properties sold under the revamped Right to Buy scheme...
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25 Aug 15
The country needs thousands of new homes and providing them is a government policy priority. So why have the Conservatives announced measures that will lead to fewer homes being built by social...
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3 Jun 15
The Welsh Government is to halve the Right to Buy discount from this summer, and will also bring in legislation to scrap the policy altogether.
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26 May 15
The government is to press ahead with plans to extend the Right-to-Buy scheme to housing associations tenants, despite warnings that this would hurt the public finances.
7 Feb 19The number of social rent homes in England has plummeted by 165,697 in just six years, analysis by a trade body has found. ...
21 Jan 19London councils are spending more than £22m each year renting back homes sold under right to buy, research has found.
28 Nov 18Social housing sales outstripped the creation of new units in England by a factor of three to one last year, government figures revealed.
4 Oct 18Right to buy is costing English councils £1bn - £300m net - a year and cutting the discounts could lead to an extra 12,000 homes being built every year, a trade body has said.
21 Aug 18The long-awaited social housing green paper, published last week, pledged to support local authorities to build more. But the Chartered Institute of Housing’s David Pipe says it did not go far...
15 Nov 17The Right to Buy scheme could “grind to a halt” because local authorities do not have the cash to replace sold homes, the Local Government Association has warned.
12 Sep 16The first housing association tenants have exercised the right to buy their homes under the government’s extension of the scheme across the social housing sector.
11 Aug 16Just 17% of council homes sold under the Right to Buy scheme in 2015-16 were replaced, an analysis by the Local Government Association has found.
3 Mar 16Bungalows and other homes for older people could make up as much as a quarter of council properties sold to fund a controversial government extension to the Right to Buy scheme, a report has...
29 Jan 16As many as 80,000 council houses could be lost by 2020 under government reforms to extend Right to Buy unless councils are given greater powers to build new homes, the Local Government Association...
26 Jan 16Government proposals to extend the Right to Buy to housing association tenants – and to fund the reform through council house sales – would reverse a “renaissance” in development, social housing...
27 Oct 15Government plans that would see local authorities funding the extension of Right to Buy to social housing tenants mean “the end of localism”, a Labour shadow cabinet member has said.
25 Sep 15Communities secretary Greg Clark has indicated he is willing to agree a deal with housing associations that would implement the government’s Right-to-Buy proposals for the sector without the need for...
3 Jun 15The Welsh Government is to halve the Right to Buy discount from this summer, and will also bring in legislation to scrap the policy altogether.
26 May 15The government is to press ahead with plans to extend the Right-to-Buy scheme to housing associations tenants, despite warnings that this would hurt the public finances.
