Context
The MP highlights a long-standing crisis in house building and social housing shortages, affecting home ownership for her constituents.
Question
For 14 years, the Conservatives presided over a house building crisis that locked a generation out of home ownership and left social housing in short supply. In Blaydon and Consett, my constituents have been calling for years for more social and affordable housing to be built. What steps are being taken by this Government to address these calls?
Answer from Matthew Pennycook
My hon. Friend is right. I would go further than she did: I think the previous Government deliberately set out to engineer the decline of social rented housing, not least through the reforms that they made to the right to buy, which we are reversing through the Social Housing Bill. As I made clear, we received ambitious bids from affordable housing providers across the country, including in the north-east. That will allow councils and housing associations to start using the grant to build at scale once again.
Not addressed: Did not specify how the government is going the extra mile for Blaydon and Consett specifically.
How: Blaming Previous Government
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