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The Right to Buy in Scotland: options for reform

By: Shelter Scotland
Published: December 2005

The Right to Buy in Scotland: options for reform

Since its introduction, over 400,000 public sector homes have been sold in Scotland through Right to Buy. The majority of these have been from local authority housing stock, however, housing built by registered social landlords since 2002 is now also included and the Right to Buy is due to be extended to all property of registered social landlords in 2012.