Four housing associations established by Victorian
philanthropists have taken legal advice on the government’s proposed Right to
Buy extension and have ‘not ruled out a challenge’. Guinness Housing, the Peabody Trust, Affinity
Sutton and Southern Housing met recently with top housing lawyers to understand
how the policy would affect their historic charitable stock. The four
organisations, which together own around 180,000 homes, were all established by
philanthropists who invested their fortunes to help house poor residents of
London. The organisations have specific governing instruments, with Peabody
incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1948 stipulating that it should work
solely in London for the relief of poverty. Read more on Inside Housing.
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