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If it sells its land to a developer, it does not benefit, so there is no incentive to go out and encourage people to buy. But if people get jobs, they will pay council tax and so on.
We should find out its views, and about what housing benefit changes might imply for the right-to-buy housing associations—in other words, how such changes might affect the decision to invest money in housing.
I confess that we do not pay an awful lot of attention to that. When we buy an asset, we know what it will cost, but the issue is what it will cost to maintain over its lifetime.
Problems abound with the number of loose ends, including the lack of data that are forthcoming about the scheme.On top of that, to date, the initiative has failed.
We do not want to introduce cumbersome time-recording systems that are over the top in scale. We must ask what reasonable evidence we can adduce in support of the claim.