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“Essentially, I want landlords to leave the market. If all these landlords who are hoarding up property try to sell because we're making it less incentivized for them to make profits off housing,” he said, “then there's going to be a flood of the market, so house prices should fall.”

“We're essentially renting everything to the private market.”

Mr Rooke also argued that social housing should be open to all income levels, including those above traditional eligibility thresholds.

“It would do two things. It would start to remove the stigma around social housing and poverty. And it would also start to make more fiscal sense.”