"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."

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"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."

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"What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation."

Government

"We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot."

Now

"I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly."

Wealth

"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."

Money

"Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites."

Policy

"Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done."

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"You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either."

Doubt

"That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer."

Government

"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."

Progress

"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."

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