Housebuilding: Target

Debate between Lord Best and Baroness Grender

Thursday 20th December 2018 Lords Chamber

[Lord Best (CB)]

My Lords—

[Baroness Grender (LD)]

My Lords, does the Minister accept that there is a direct connection between the lack of affordable housing or social housing and homelessness, as described by Crisis recently? Twelve months ago, in Oral Questions on 19 December, the Minister described the resource that was being allocated, but we have now seen 12 months of an increase in homelessness, in contrast with Scotland, for example. What does the Minister hope to tell us in 12 months’ time and why is it going wrong at the moment?