The proposal to extend the Right to Buy to housing
associations has been widely. But the way the policy is funded is probably the
most destructive part of the housing measures introduced in the Housing Bill
and the Comprehensive Spending Review.
The proposal is to fund RtB discounts by forcing local councils to sell
their more valuable council homes. Most directly affected will be the expensive
areas where councils will be forced to sell the most homes. But lots of less
expensive areas will also be indirectly affected by the subsequent influx of
lower income households displaced by the shortages of affordable homes. The
government has not said exactly which areas will be forced to sell most homes,
but using publically available data Shelter have made a nationwide estimate of
the number of homes that every council will be forced to sell. Download the
analysis and figures from the Shelter website.
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