The entire SAHP "should be ringfenced for social rent"

While this would lead to a reduction in the number of homes that could be delivered through the Programme, this could be offset by focusing Section 106 homes on Affordable Rent and making use of low-interest loans from the National Housing Bank.  The Resolution Foundation's Housing Outlook for Quarter 3 of 2026 noted that government investment would need to increase significantly if Andy Burnham's promised "biggest council house building programme since the post-war period" is to be realised.  It also pointed out that delivering a material increase in the number of affordable homes would take years and therefore called for housing support for lower-income private renters to be re-pegged to actual rents.