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SUMMARY:The impact of the Right to Buy for housing association tenants and
  forced sale of higher value council homes - Anna Clarke\, Cambridge Centr
 e for Housing and Planning Research
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CONTACT:Clare Eaves
DESCRIPTION:The Housing and Planning Bill\, currently going through parlia
 ment\, introduces two new important changes affecting the social housing s
 ector in England. Housing Association tenants will be given the Right-to-B
 uy their home with similar discounts to those already available to council
  tenants. Housing associations are expected to replace the stock they sell
  and the funding to compensate them for selling at discounted rates will b
 e made available from the sale of higher value council-owned properties wh
 en they become vacant. Analysis recently carried out by the Cambridge Cent
 re for Housing and Planning Research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation ex
 plored the likely scale of sales of social housing under both policies\, a
 nd the impact of the sales and the replacement stock on rent levels and on
  poverty of low income households seeking social housing. The research fou
 nd that both policies will cause an initial reduction in available lets of
  social housing\, but that in the longer term the rent level of the replac
 ement stock determines the poverty impact of both policies.\n\n\n\nBiograp
 hy\n\nAnna Clarke is a Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre f
 or Housing and Planning Research\, within the Land Economy Department.\nHe
 r research interests include housing need\, homelessness\, demand for soci
 al housing and low cost home ownership\, worklessness and a growing area o
 f work around welfare reform.\nShe was the lead author on the recent analy
 sis commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation exploring the poverty i
 mpacts of the Right to Buy for housing association tenants and sale of hig
 her value local authority dwellings\, which was published recently.\nAnna 
 has recently published work for the Department for Work and Pensions on th
 e housing benefit reforms affecting under-occupiers\, and has also recentl
 y completed work on youth homelessness for Centrepoint. Her current projec
 ts include study for the ESRC on how housing providers can tackle youth po
 verty.\n
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 1
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