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The Mayor of Higher Manchester Andy Burnham has known as for a suspension of the Proper to Purchase scheme, after claiming it was the explanation the housing disaster had received “worse yearly”.
In a daring and radical step, Burnham, who was re-elected as Mayor of Higher Manchester final week, has stated that the Proper to Purchase scheme, which permits council tenants to purchase their council residence at a reduced value, must be suspended in order that extra social houses might be constructed throughout the nation.
The most recent figures from the Native Authorities Affiliation present that within the final monetary yr, 10,896 houses had been offered via Proper to Purchase and solely 3,447 have been changed, leading to a internet lack of 7,449 social houses in 2022/23.
In England, there are actually 1.4 million fewer households in social housing than there have been in 1980.
Burnham informed BBC Breakfast this morning: “We lose social houses yearly, and throughout Higher Manchester for the final yr 500 social houses had been misplaced.
“I’m saying to Whitehall and Westminster – you might want to enable us to droop Proper to Purchase from the brand new houses that we’re constructing as a result of if we don’t, making an attempt to unravel the housing disaster is like making an attempt to fill a shower however with the plug out since you try to construct new houses however you lose them on the different finish and that simply isn’t going to work.
“We do now have to re-think Proper to Purchase, it’s about suspending it not ending it, however we will’t be in a state of affairs the place the housing disaster simply will get worse and worse yearly, as we lose these houses that folks can actually afford.”
Burnham has pledged to construct 10,000 council houses, with a minimum of 1,000 in each borough.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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