PRESS RELEASE : Welsh Conservatives response to cap on new social rent cap for Wales [November 2022]

The press release issued by the Welsh Conservatives on 16 November 2022.

Commenting on the news that Labour ministers have set a new social rent cap at 6.5%. Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Housing, Janet Finch-Saunders MS said:

“It is incredibly disappointing that Labour ministers are having to resort to rent caps in Wales to combat rent rises which are a direct result of the Labour-made housing crisis.

 “As a result of Labour’s failures, only 6,000 houses are being built per year, less than half of what we need.

 “If Labour ministers spent half the time addressing the shocking shortage of housing across Wales as they did planning on putting more politicians in Cardiff Bay, a lot more could get done. 

 “Labour must address the root of the housing crisis in Wales and not look to paper over the cracks that they themselves have caused.”