Context
The MP referenced a detailed five-step plan by the government to deliver a decade of renewal in social and affordable housing, including significant grant funding boosts. The MP emphasized the need for maintaining existing stock alongside new builds.
Question
I am glad to see the Government focusing so much on building social housing, including some in my constituency, but it will also be important to maintain the stock once it has been built and to look at existing stock. Can the Minister say when the issue of rent convergence will be resolved?
Answer from The Minister for Housing and Planning (Matthew Pennycook)
The Government remain committed to implementing social rent convergence to support additional investment in new and existing social housing. We will announce a decision on how it will be implemented later this month, before the launch of the social and affordable homes programme. That decision will take into account the benefits to the supply and quality of social and affordable housing, and the impact on rent payers and welfare spending.
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