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Second Homes: Social Rented Housing

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Question for Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

UIN 900437, tabled on 28 November 2023

Question

Dr Thérèse Coffey
Conservative
Suffolk Coastal
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to restrict the sale of social housing for use as a second home.

Answer

Jacob Young
Conservative
Redcar
Commons

Answered on

4 December 2023

Councils can make decisions to put covenants on properties sold through Right to Buy to prevent them being used as holiday lets, and in Designated Rural Areas homes can only be resold to a local person.

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Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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