The Right to Buy scheme is a policy in England which gives secure tenants of councils and housing associations the legal right to buy the home they are living in. There is also a Right to Acquire for the assured tenants of housing associations. Between 1980 and the present, it is estimated that approximately 2 million homes in the UK have been sold in this manner.
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