Right to Acquire Scheme

(asked on 21st June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will extend the Right to Acquire scheme to properties built before March 1997.


Answered by
Dominic Raab Portrait
Dominic Raab
This question was answered on 29th June 2018

The Government has a commitment to extend the Right to Buy to housing association tenants. This will include tenants who qualify for the Right to Acquire but whose homes are exempt as they were built or acquired by their housing association landlord before 1997.

The Midlands pilot of the voluntary extension of the Right to Buy will give thousands more housing association tenants the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of home ownership. The Government is currently engaging with the National Housing Federation and housing associations in the Midlands, and more details on the pilot will be announced in due course.

There are no plans to amend the Right to Acquire.

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