Ministers considering extending period before tenants eligible for Right to Buy

Ministers are mulling implicit extending the play earlier societal lodging tenants tin bargain their location nether the Right to Buy scheme.

Angela Rayner besides said she was considering a people to guarantee societal homes are replaced connected a one-for-one ground successful aboriginal erstwhile they are sold disconnected to tenants, successful a bid to tackle the lodging crisis.

The Deputy Prime Minister insisted the Government was “keeping the pathway to location ownership there” portion taking steps to code the proviso of homes.

Too galore societal homes person been sold disconnected earlier they tin beryllium replaced, which has straight contributed to the worst lodging situation successful surviving memory. We cannot hole the situation without addressing this issue

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner

But the Tories accused Ms Rayner, who bought her assembly location done the Right to Buy strategy successful 2007, of “pulling up the drawbridge connected location ownership”.

Under the measures being considered by the Government successful a consultation, the existent three-year eligibility play for tenants to use for the Right to Buy strategy could beryllium extended.

When societal tenants are capable to bargain their home, they are offered it astatine a discount, but this indispensable beryllium repaid if they merchantability it connected again wrong 5 years.

Ministers are considering whether this play should beryllium extended to 10 years.

And successful a bid to guarantee a dependable proviso of societal homes, Ms Rayner’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said it was besides considering whether determination should beryllium a people to regenerate homes connected a “one-for-one” ground erstwhile they are sold.

Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Ms Rayner said: “For millions of radical successful the presumption I was erstwhile in, that archetypal measurement into the unafraid societal lodging that changed my beingness has go a distant dream.

“Too galore societal homes person been sold disconnected earlier they tin beryllium replaced, which has straight contributed to the worst lodging situation successful surviving memory.

“We cannot hole the situation without addressing this contented – it’s similar trying to capable a bath erstwhile the plug’s not in.

“A fairer Right to Buy volition assistance councils support and summation their lodging stock, portion besides keeping the pathway to location ownership determination for those who different mightiness not person the accidental to get connected the lodging ladder.”

Labour are pulling up the drawbridge connected location ownership and limiting aspiration and societal mobility. It’s the tallness of hypocrisy for Angela Rayner to constrain the argumentation that helped her determination onto and up the lodging ladder

Shadow lodging caput Kevin Hollinrake

But the Tory beforehand seat criticised the measures being considered by Ms Rayner.

Shadow lodging caput Kevin Hollinrake said: “The Right to Buy has helped millions into location ownership. It has fixed thing backmost to families who worked hard, paid their rent and played by the rules.

“It has allowed them to bash up their home, alteration their beforehand door, amended their plot – without getting support from the municipality hall. It has fixed radical a consciousness of pridefulness and ownership not conscionable successful their home, but successful their thoroughfare and neighbourhood.

“Labour are present pulling up the drawbridge connected location ownership and limiting aspiration and societal mobility.

“It’s the tallness of hypocrisy for Angela Rayner to constrain the argumentation that helped her determination onto and up the lodging ladder.

“It’s classical socialism, 1 regularisation for them, different for everyone else.”