I do indeed. The Government published statistics yesterday that, in a sense, show the very scale of the point my hon. Friend rightly makes. When I stood on the other side of the Chamber as Labour’s last Housing Minister in 2009, 120,000 more social rented homes were let in that year than last year. That is an indicator of how short social housing is and how chronic the crisis that we face is.
Homelessness
Proceeding contribution from
John Healey
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 29 January 2020.
It occurred during Opposition day on Homelessness.
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