Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 21
3rd Report: Building more social housing
Published 27 Jul 2020
Paragraph 125
Addressed to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Long-term delivery of social and affordable rented housing All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
Local authorities should receive 100 per cent of Right to Buy receipts. The time limit for using these receipts to fund a replacement should be extended to five years, rather than three. Councils should also be allowed to combine receipts with other pots, like grant funding, to maximise flexibility. Receipts must be used to fund like-for-like tenure replacements: a sold social rent home should be replaced with a new social rent home. Without these changes, Right to Buy will make achieving the development of the desired 90,000 properties per annum unachievable.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, 3rd Report: Building more social housing (HC 173), paragraph 125, 27 July 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 14 October 2020 (deadline 27 September 2020).