"The prospects of getting an affordable home are looking bleaker than ever for millions of people because of "inadequate" public and private house-building, campaigners have warned."
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"Labour MP Austin Mitchell, who chairs the Commons council housing group, called for more government investment in council-house building."
"We need a huge increase – more than 100,000 council homes a year for rent in addition to what the private market builds for sale," he said.
"House building can also help Britain get out of the recession quicker by creating thousands of jobs and boosting the consumer market as it did during the 1930s recession."