Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 25
3rd Report: Building more social housing
Published 27 Jul 2020
Paragraph 134
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 caution the Government not to make Shared Ownership Right to Buy a condition of affordable housing grant funding, until our suggested reforms on receipts are implemented. When Right to Buy is implemented for all housing associations, like with the pilots, the Treasury should reimburse housing associations for the cost of discounts. This aligns with the recommendation we made in our report on housing associations and the Right to Buy in 2016. Otherwise, housing associations will face the same difficulties as local authorities in replacing sales.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, 3rd Report: Building more social housing (HC 173), paragraph 134, 27 July 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 14 October 2020 (deadline 27 September 2020).