Social Housing

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:27 pm on 6 December 2022.

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Photo of Mike Hedges Mike Hedges Labour 2:27, 6 December 2022

I thank the First Minister for that response, but there is still a shortage of houses for rent and there's a serious problem with homelessness, including people who are inadequately housed. The only time that we have had, since the second world war, housing that reached the scale that we needed was between 1945 and 1979, when we had large-scale council house building across Wales. This was based upon councils borrowing over 60 years to build houses. This did not cost the Treasury any money, but was based upon the councils' ability to borrow and be able to pay back from the rents they received. How do we return to this method of funding council housing so that we can deal with the serious problem we have with inadequate housing and a shortage of housing?