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Welsh social tenants’ right to purchase their home at a heavy discount will end this month.
The Right to Buy and associated schemes will be officially abolished across the country on 26 January – nearly 40 years after it was introduced by Margaret Thatcher’s government.
The Labour-led Welsh government’s bill to scrap the Right to Buy came into law on 24 January, but the ban was delayed for 12 months to give tenants a last chance to become homeowners through the policy.
People hoping to exercise the Right to Buy must have submitted an application form to their landlord by the 26 January cut-off date to qualify.
Julie James, housing and local government minister for the Welsh government, said: “We passed the Abolition of the Right to Buy and Associated Rights (Wales) Act to protect the stock of social housing in Wales from further reduction, so it is available to provide affordable housing for people who need it.
“This legislation is one of a range of actions we are taking to increase the supply of housing in Wales.”
More than 139,000 homes have been sold under the Right to Buy in Wales.
Anglesey, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Powys, Swansea and Cardiff councils have already used powers to suspend the Right to Buy among their stock.