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Letters: Another approach for Crown Estate sale
Bryan Latter's letter, Residents can block estates sale (July 2), encourages residents and tenants of the Crown Estates to oppose the sale of social homes but there is another approach.
The Crown Estates could announce that it is their policy to ensure that their homes remain in social use by contractually preventing any purchaser, who would be obliged to rent under social housing terms, from selling the properties other than back to the vendor at the same price.
The principal reason why housing associations like the Genesis Housing Group are queuing up to buy these homes is to sell them on and pocket the profit at the expense of the Crown Commissioners who appear to be asleep at the wheel.
Such a condition would stop the abuse in its tracks
Yours sincerely,
Peter Rutherford
Independent Federation of Genesis Residents.
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