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Rented Housing

There is still a significant amount of council-owned homes. My council has about 9,500 such homes. The figures elsewhere are still pretty big. There are also right-to-buy schemes in housing associations and in other situations. If we are to get sustainable, long-term, affordable social housing built, we have to have the money reinvested. I take a pragmatic view on the matter. We should do whatever is necessary to get new homes built. There has been a complete and utter failure to get new house building going, which has had a huge impact on the social and private-rented sector, and we need to fix that position.