The government is to further increase the level of right
to buy discounts from 6 April. In an announcement made just before the official
start of the purdah period, the CLG confirmed discounts will increase from
£77,000 to £77,900 outside London and from £102,700 to £103,900 in the capital.
The increases are in line with the CPI measure of inflation. Meanwhile,
measures in the Deregulation Act have increased the numbers of tenants eligible
for the right to buy. Previously, a tenant would have to live in council
housing for five years before qualifying; this has been reduced to three years.
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