{"id":11886,"date":"2016-05-03T22:30:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/councils-to-sell-up-to-145m-of-housing-a-year-to-fund-right-to-buy\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T22:41:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:41:59","slug":"councils-to-sell-up-to-145m-of-housing-a-year-to-fund-right-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/councils-to-sell-up-to-145m-of-housing-a-year-to-fund-right-to-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Councils 'to sell up to \u00a3145m of housing a year to fund right-to-buy'"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBirmingham would be forced to sell the most council homes to help housing association tenants buy, says Shelter Councils in England face having to raise as much as \u00a3145m a year each by selling off their own housing to fund an extension of the right-to-buy scheme, housing charity Shelter has claimed.Under plans unveiled in 2015, local authorities will be required to sell \u201chigher value\u201d council homes when these become vacant. A chunk of the money raised would be used to fund discounts of up to \u00a3103,900 for housing association tenants who want to buy their homes. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Councils ‘to sell up to \u00a3145m of housing a year to fund right-to-buy’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Birmingham would be forced to sell the most council homes to help housing association tenants...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-35I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4309,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mps-slam-funding-plans-for-right-to-buy\/","url_meta":{"origin":11886,"position":0},"title":"MPs slam funding plans for right to buy","date":"February 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Commons committee report says \u201cextremely questionable\u201d model forcing councils to sell properties will reduce stock of affordable homesThe government is relying on an \u201cextremely questionable\u201d model to fund the extension of the right to buy to housing association homes in England, a parliamentary committee has warned. 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