Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 24
3rd Report: Building more social housing
Published 27 Jul 2020
Paragraph 133
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)
If the Government’s intention is that the Right to Buy should both give people an opportunity to own their homes, but also to provide resources which will then be reinvested into social housing to ensure one-to-one replacements, then consideration must be given to local authorities who are unable to deliver sufficient replacements 56 Building more social housing because of constraints on land availability. We recommend that the Government has discussions with the Local Government Association about ways in which they could ensure Right to Buy does not lead to a reduction in social housing.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, 3rd Report: Building more social housing (HC 173), paragraph 133, 27 July 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 14 October 2020 (deadline 27 September 2020).