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1. Scottish Homes stock has now all been transferred, but the statistics of past sales are contained in Housing Trends.
2. This Act will abolish the priority need definition by 2012, and as a result place a requirement on local authorities to secure housing for all households assessed as unintentionally homeless. Concerns have been expressed that the supply of housing available in some local authorities will be insufficient to meet the level of need from homeless households.
3. Due to the purchase date given, this respondent would not have bought her property under the Right to Buy, but rather, through a voluntary sales process.
4. Due to timescale, one of the properties bought in the distant past could not have been bought under the Right to Buy.
5. Councils do not move people who are under-occupying accommodation. Some councils have a policy of offering additional points to encourage such households to transfer to smaller accommodation, but as part of the transfer process the household would be fully involved in the selection of the alternative accommodation, and would not be moved to a property they did not want to move to.
6. This is clearly not always the case.

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