Shadow housing secretary Kevin Hollinrake has expressed concern about the UK housing crisis worsening due to potential spending cuts. It comes as Rachel Reeves prepares to announce the government's spending plans until the next election.
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00:00I'm very interested in the affordable homes budget which actually is dropping
00:05in the current plans the Labour government they keep talking they've got
00:08more money for affordable homes they deliver more social housing they can't
00:12do with a significant uplift in the affordable homes budget so that's going
00:16to be critical and it's critical to the rest of the government's plans in terms
00:20of delivering one and a half million homes that they want to deliver which
00:23we're not against but we are very concerned about how they're going to
00:26deliver those homes and where they're going to deliver them moving those
00:29homes out of urban areas into greenfield sites which means you hollow out
00:35communities and you make those places much much less soulful so less in fact so
00:41real concerns about how Labour is going to achieve its plans building more houses
00:47isn't just about numbers it's about communities we want to build more homes
00:51not just more houses