Social Housing Being Sold Off On Rightmove While Homelessness Soars

Social housing is being sold off to private landlords via Rightmove because housing associations don't want to spend money refurbishing the homes. One provider, Jigsaw, has sold off scores of homes to the private rental sector in the last three years, arguing nobody else wants them and it is ‘not economical’ to do them up itself. Jigsaw, which took over Manchester housing association Adactus earlier this year, says it is using proceeds from the sales to build more homes for rent. But none of them are in the south Manchester neighbourhoods where many of the sell-offs have taken place. Read more on the Manchester Evening News website.

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