THE UK government has announced another overhaul of the Right to Buy scheme.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the 2.5 million tenants renting their homes from housing associations will be given the right to buy them outright under plans to extend the policy.
How has Right to Buy fared in Stroud?
Fewer Stroud council houses are being replaced than are sold through Right to Buy, figures show.
Figures from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government show that 204 council homes were privatised through the Right to Buy scheme in Stroud between 2012-13 and 2020-21.
Councils are expected to replace these homes on a one-for-one basis, but just 137 replacements were acquired or began construction in the area over this period.
Right to Buy was introduced in 1980 to help council and housing association tenants buy their home, at a discount of up to £87,200 outside London.
Alicia Walker, head of policy, research and campaigns at homeless charity Centrepoint, said: "Extending the Right to Buy to housing associations risks further eroding the stock of social housing, which many young people desperately need.
"Promises of like-for-like replacements have been made before but not been followed through.”
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