Extend the voluntary right to buy to all housing association tenants

Rejected 19 signatures

What the petition asks

For those who have been residing in a housing association property for 10 years should be eligible to buy the property

This will allow many tenants to be able to afford a house which they may have spent a significant portion of their life in and created a number of sentimental memories. The government should offer this to all HA tenants and give them the chance to buy the home.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

There is already a Right to Acquire for housing association homes.

Tenants of housing association properties built or bought by a housing association after 1997, or transferred from a local council to a housing association after 1997, have the right to apply to buy their housing if they've had a public sector landlord for three years.

You can find out more about the Right to Acquire here: https://www.gov.uk/right-to-acquire-buying-housing-association-home

We could accept a petition calling on the Government to change this scheme, but it would need to be clear what changes you wanted the Government to make to how this scheme currently operates.

Timeline

20 Sep 2020	Petition opened for signatures
15 Oct 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 19

Status Rejected

Rejected 15 Oct 2020

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