Housing right-to-buy measures
Sandra McLellan asks whether the housing Bill will restore right-to-buy, support construction, and address shared-ownership mortgage arrears; the Minister says it will come before the House in May.
Local authority tenants have been waiting years for the resumption of the right-to-buy scheme. The number of households involved in the shared ownership scheme who are in mortgage arrears continues to be a problem. When will the housing (miscellaneous provisions) Bill be brought before the House and will it make provision for a building programme to compensate for units sold under an agreed right-to-buy scheme and a solution for the growing number of shared ownership homeowners who have slipped into mortgage arrears?
Comment on this
The Bill will be brought before the House in May.