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Sep 9, 2026
Andy BurnhamGUEST
We have set out plans for the biggest council house building program this country has seen in a generation.
Andy BurnhamGUEST
And if you look at research from the National Housing Federation, you will see that is the route to save billions from housing benefits.
Andy BurnhamGUEST
We will shortly respond to the final report of Alan Milburn, who is looking at the issue of young people not in education, employment or training.
Andy BurnhamGUEST
Again, something left behind by the last government.
Lesley RiddochHOST
or a quota on it.
Lesley RiddochHOST
So apparently now there's been a huge pushback in England with the National Housing Federation saying that if they let the private sector go tonto, England would lose 32,000 truly affordable homes in the next 10 years.
Lesley RiddochHOST
So they've decided the quotas stay.
Lesley RiddochHOST
So that, I mean, in a way, that's okay, that's fine.
AlasdairHOST
So, there's a Beeb article with a bunch of stuff in it, that's where I got the list of places where these houses are meant, or these 70,000 homes are meant to be built.
AlasdairHOST
Another part of that article reported that the National Housing Federation and homeless charities have previously agreed that 90,000 social homes would need to be built each year to meet demand.
AlasdairHOST
And based on the numbers we were just talking about, yeah, that 90,000 figure seems about right.
AlasdairHOST
So, that would mean that across the next 10 years, 390,000 new social homes would need to be built.
Tara WelshCORRESPONDENT
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Tara WelshCORRESPONDENT
Th- There's 1.3 million i, in England, but, you know, certain London boroughs, Westminster Council, um, i- if you were to wait for a, a family size home, like a three-bedroom home, National Housing Federation worked out it was 100-year waiting list.
Tara WelshCORRESPONDENT
Do you know what I mean? So, like, [laughs] the queue is long and the perception is from some that some people are, are kind of beating them in the queue.
Tara WelshCORRESPONDENT
And so I, I did, um, put that to Angela Rayner and she kind of echoed what the housing charities say that, you know, there's very strict, um, eligibility, um, and that actually, uh, nine out of 10 people in social housing, um, are UK nationals.
Anna HighfieldHOST
Our own survey of resident-facing staff last year found that supporting tenants with complex mental health issues is a major worry at work for 57% of resident-facing housing staff.
Catherine SwindellsHOST
And we know that this is a growing problem, don't we? Earlier this year, the NatFed published data outlining that households reporting mental health issues in the English Housing Survey had almost doubled in 2023, '24 compared to a decade earlier, rising from 17% in 2013, '14 up to 38%.
Anna HighfieldHOST
Yeah, a huge rise.
Anna HighfieldHOST
So that's of course gonna take a toll on the workforce with the additional support needs that come with that huge increase in mental health needs, as well as the emotional toll of supporting tenants who might be struggling in all sorts of ways, um, sometimes with really serious and debilitating conditions as well.
Matthew ScottGUEST
Having said that, we know that very, very young children, particularly babies, can be more at risk.
Matthew ScottGUEST
We did some research with the National Housing Federation a few weeks ago that showed that one in six babies are living in overheated homes right now.
Matthew ScottGUEST
At the other end of the spectrum, there is older people, particularly people older than 75 and 85. who are most at risk of very, very serious health conditions and ultimately passing away due to hot weather.
Matthew ScottGUEST
And we also know there's some risks around things like pregnancy as well.