Shelter responds to Angela Rayner’s appointment as Secretary of State for Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Posted 05 Jul 2024
Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said: “Angela Rayner has inherited a housing emergency at boiling point. Homelessness has hit shameful records, more social homes are sold off and demolished each year than built, and private renting is entirely broken.
“The Secretary of State has her work cut out, but having grown up in a social home herself she knows better than anyone that building decent, affordable social housing is the best way to curb the current crisis and provide the foundations on which society can thrive.
“Labour committed in their manifesto to the biggest increase in social housing in a generation - now Angela Rayner has the opportunity to live up to those words. We need 90,000 social rent homes a year to clear waiting lists and eradicate homelessness. But her first task must be to bring forward a strong bill in the King’s Speech that makes renting safer, secure and more affordable.”
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