‘Unacceptable’ that much social housing is ‘uninhabitable’, says minister

The minister for rough sleeping and housing has today been quizzed by the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee over the regulation of social housing.

Eddie Hughes MP said that tackling the issue “comes back to… respect,” and said it is “simply not acceptable” that many social “houses that are uninhabitable”.

Clive Betts, the Labour MP who chairs the committee, said that while “in general terms the quality of social housing is probably better than private rented housing,” the committee had found some “really bad examples” where this was not the case.

Conservative MP Ben Everitt pointed out that, ahead of the forthcoming social housing regulation bill “the government still hasn’t proposed or hasn’t published the full legislation to implement” reforms in the wake of the Grenfell Fire tragedy.