The next government should give councils greater flexibility to set discounts under the Right to Buy scheme, council and housing chiefs have advised.
This recommendations follows the findings of a joint survey that revealed nearly three-quarters of councils felt they could only replace half or fewer of the homes they have sold through the current system and 12% could not replace any at all.
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