Recommendation 6

To prevent the further erosion of the social housing stock, we urge the Government to set out how it plans to fully fund the one-for-one and like-for-like replacement of every home sold under the proposed extension of the statutory right to buy to tenants of private social housing providers. One-for-one replacement must be completed within The Regulation of Social Housing 69 three years of the sale. We also call on the Government to publish its assessment of whether extending a genuine right to buy to tenants of private providers might result in the ONS reclassifying the sector as part of the public sector.