article_snippet.sent: But most tenants living in homes provided by housing associations – not-for-profit bodies that have gradually replaced councils as the main providers of social housing – do not qualify.
article_snippet.sent: Currently, taxpayers subsidise the housing costs of many unemployed and lower paid workers who live in housing association properties.
article_snippet.sent: Are housing association tenants covered?
article_snippet.sent: – autonomous, not-for-profit bodies that receive public money and loans from the private sector to provide low-cost homes – are largely exempt.
article_snippet.sent: around 800,000 HA tenants lack any right to buy.
article_snippet.sent: Around 15,000 such properties become vacant each year, because tenants die or move.