Member

Many rural tenants, as a consequence, depend on housing associations for stable accommodation because the private rental market can often be—I know we are considering this later—driven by holiday lets; we also saw, following Covid, people moving out of many cities into the more rural areas of our country. There has been progress in terms of housing policy, but rural tenants have often been ignored. Indeed, while urban tenants have benefited from being able to purchase their homes at discounted rates, that certainly has not been the case in rural areas.