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<p>Residents of co-operatives are exempt from the Voluntary Right to Buy, and housing
associations – including those partnering in community-led schemes – will have discretion
not to sell certain homes. This can include homes built through a community land trust.</p><p>Where
a housing association exercises this discretion, the tenant will be offered an alternative
property so that they have the same opportunity for home ownership as other tenants.</p><p>Housing
associations are professional organisations that operate according to sound commercial
and social principles, and we would expect them to work with their local community
on the operation of the voluntary agreement.</p><p>We are currently running a large-scale
pilot of the Voluntary Right to Buy in the Midlands, one aim of which is to test out
the exemptions and portability policies.</p>
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