Labour MPs have criticised the government’s affordable rent programme, claiming ministers were not planning to build any new social homes at all. At a question time for the Communities and Local Government department in the House of Commons, Greenwich and Woolwich MP Nick Raynsford said there would be no new homes with social rents, other than those already started under the Labour government. Addressing housing minister Grant Shapps, he said: ‘His policy of so-called affordable rented homes at 80 per cent of market rents will not produce any social rented properties, and even worse, it will require the conversion of former social rent properties to so-called affordable rent properties when they become available for re-let. That means no new affordable social rented homes, and more people waiting for a home that they can afford.’ Read more on Inside Housing.
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