DCLG officials confirm they have no objection to councils
selling their high-value stock to housing associations, however are
more circumspect about selling to wholly-owned local authority
housing companies.
If stock retained councils are forced to sell "high-value"
council housing to pay the so called Right to Buy levy, the option
of selling high-value voids to a council-owned local housing
company seems to be gathering momentum among some stock retained
councils.
ARCH has been testing the views of the DCLG on this idea...
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