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Affordable Housing

My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the extremely important Shelter report, which shows the significance of housing in people’s lives. We have lifted almost 1 million children out of bad housing as a result of the decent homes programme—many children used to live in unacceptably bad council housing—but he is right that we need to build more homes, which means more social housing, more private housing and more shared ownership homes, if we are to address the needs of young children, who need better housing for the future.