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'Renting for the rest of my life'

England's housing market is "broken", the government has said, as it unveiled plans for more affordable homes.

The new housing strategy for England includes forcing councils to plan for their own needs and giving them powers to pressurise developers to start building on land they own.

We heard from tenants who can't afford to get on the property ladder and feel insecure renting, the Residential Landlords Association, and Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell - who's campaigned against building houses on green belt land.

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