article_snippet.sent: Right to buy has already helped around two million families realise two million families dream of owning two million families own home – and by extending it, we’ll give even more hardworking people the chance to move on and up the housing ladder.
article_snippet.sent: So a housing association, like the one on whose board I sit, goes to the market, raises finance, does deals with contractors and builds urgently needed units for people to live in at social rents and then the government forces us to sell people to live in at social rents off at a 35 per cent discount.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Council house tenants in England can already buy ’ Council house tenants in England home at a discount of up to £103,900.
article_snippet.sent: The Tories would extend this to 800,000 housing association tenants who now have limited purchase rights and to 500,000 who have no rights at all.
article_snippet.sent: Around 2.7million people live in 800,000 housing association tenants who now have limited purchase rights and to 500,000 who have no rights at all.
article_snippet.sent: The subsidies would be funded by making councils sell The subsidies more costly properties once The subsidies become vacant.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The next Conservative government will extend the right to buy to all housing association tenants in this country.
article_snippet.sent: The plan was welcomed by Paula Higgins, chief executive of the HomeOwners Alliance, who said:
article_snippet.sent: A study by the GMB union found that two out of five council houses sold in Wandsworth, south-west London, in the 1980s, are now owned by private landlords, who rent them to tenants.
article_snippet.sent: A study by the GMB union said reviving the policy would benefit private landlords.