Right to Buy Scheme: Housing Associations – Parliamentary Written Answer

Kate Hollern:  To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether it is his policy that the extension of right to buy to housing associations will apply to tenants whose properties were built exclusively with private finance.

Brandon Lewis: Under the agreement with the National Housing Federation, there will be a presumption that housing association tenants will have the right to purchase their home at Right to Buy level discounts. The agreement states that housing associations may exercise discretion over sales of properties provided through charitable or public-benefit resources or bequeathed for

charitable or public-benefit purposes, and in the possession of the housing association before it became registered under the Housing Act 1974 (or later equivalent legislation).