• Maximising new social housing supply, through new build and acquisitions of existing private stock, remains critical to helping people to avoid high rents in the private sector, thus reducing poverty levels
  • Grant subsidy rates for housing associations and councils need to be sufficient to ensure that rents do not have to rise significantly: rents must always remain affordable to people in low paid work, however challenging this is
  • Scotland should ensure diversity within the new build programme, with Community Based Housing Associations encouraged to play their part where they wish to develop new homes