Housing Availability in Ynys Môn

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:38 pm on 26 May 2021.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:38, 26 May 2021

Llywydd, can I congratulate the Member on her election to the Chamber, and on this her first contribution to our debates, and an important contribution it was too? Because our ambition to build 20,000 homes for social renting depends upon a new capacity for our local authority colleagues to build housing for rent in those communities, where, far too often, those stocks have been diminished by policies promoted by other parties. And there are ambitious plans in a number of parts of Wales for local authorities to play their part. And this Government will certainly, in funding, but also in the partnerships that we create, through the Welsh Local Government Association and others, seek to maximise the contribution that local authorities in all parts of Wales can make to making sure that there are affordable homes for rent for those local populations—people who see their futures in those communities and want to know that they have housing that they can depend upon, that will be there for the long term and will allow them to play the part that they want to play in building futures for themselves and for their wider communities.

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