The Chartered Institute of Housing has estimated 145,000
housing association tenants will exercise the Right to Buy over the next five
years. The claim was made in the Chartered Institute of Housing’s (CIH)
submission to the CLG Committee inquiry into the viability and sustainability
of housing associations. “Our initial analysis of Right to Buy [RTB] is that
about 1.45 million tenants will be eligible and about 10% will exercise the
Right to Buy in the first five years,” said John Perry, CIH policy advisor. “This
is based on experience with local authority Right to Buy in the 1980s, taking
into account that the proportion of housing association tenants in employment
now is a lot lower than was the case with council tenants then. Read more on
Inside Housing.
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