7. Debate: The Affordable Housing Supply Review

Part of the debate – in the Senedd on 10 July 2018.

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Amendment 3—Rhun ap Iorwerth

Delete ‘ambitious’ from point 1.

Amendment 4—Rhun ap Iorwerth

Delete all after point 1 and replace with:

Notes that independent advice and analysis has demonstrated that 20,000 affordable homes over the course of this Assembly term will not meet current or future needs.

Calls on the Welsh Government to have a long-term plan for increasing the amount of affordable housing to meet the needs of local communities throughout Wales, recognising that this can be achieved in different ways.

Calls on all new social and council housing, where possible, to have solar panels installed, to ensure that tenants can benefit from lower energy bills.

Regrets that the number of empty homes in Wales has increased over recent years, despite the Welsh Government’s Houses into Homes scheme.

Notes the scope and agreed work streams of the affordable housing review.

Calls on the affordable housing review to examine the wider context of access to public services in new estates, noting that poor access to public services can significantly increase costs faced by people living in such estates, particularly those on a low income.

Calls on the review to include tenants groups and those in the private rented sector, so that they can inform the future social and rented housing landscape in Wales.