Local authorities have spent millions on renting housing that they previously owned for temporary accommodation, research by a trade magazine has found.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Conservative plans to extend the Right-to-Buy scheme to tenants in housing association properties would damage to the long-term health of the UK's public finances, the Institute for Fiscal...
David Cameron has set out plans to extend the government’s Right-to-Buy scheme to social housing tenants, to be funded by forcing local authorities to sell off high-value council homes.
Councils should be able to cut the discount available under the government’s Right to Buy scheme in order to raise funds to replace homes that are sold, housing organisations have said.
Council house tenants in England will be able to buy their homes with discounts of up to £75,000 under the ‘rebooted’ right to buy scheme, ministers have announced.
