Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 23
3rd Report: Building more social housing
Published 27 Jul 2020
Paragraph 132
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)
We recommend that, in line with the five year period which covers discount repayment, the Government prevents Right to Buy homes being privately let within five years of purchase. This will require legislating to implement a covenant against letting for a five year period. This is not without precedent: Help to Buy properties include a covenant which prevents private renting. The Government’s justification is that Help to Buy is designed to assist you to move on or up the housing ladder, words that could apply just as aptly to Right to Buy.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, 3rd Report: Building more social housing (HC 173), paragraph 132, 27 July 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 14 October 2020 (deadline 27 September 2020).