'“Out of the 7,500/8,000 new social houses that were delivered last year, only about 1,600 were delivered by councils.'
The Government's dependence on the private rental sector to resolve housing issues neither works in the short-term nor the long-term.
“The interesting thing about direct builds and local authorities is local authorities never actually directly built themselves,” he said. “We used to have a thing called the National Billing Agency, which was brilliant because that was like a centralised resource to help local authorities go out and do the things that they didn't have to do the skills [to do].
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