The Government is set to extend the controversial Right
to Buy policy to tens of thousands of new properties amid warnings the move
will "jeopardise" future affordable house building. Under the plans, ministers want to extend the
policy to tenants in properties built by arms-length housing companies set up
by councils to bypass Whitehall restrictions on homebuilding. Councils say
these spin-out companies are one of the few “viable” ways for them to build new
affordable homes, and that replacing the homes they lose through Right to Buy
sales is now “near impossible”. Read more on the Independent website.
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