The biggest wave of social and affordable housing in a generation will be built in the best possible places, with supporting infrastructure, public services and green spaces

• Angela Rayner unveils sweeping plans to tackle ‘scandal’ of Tory housing legacy

We knew our country was in the grip of a housing emergency before we took office. But it’s even more grim than we imagined. Not just a high-tax, low-growth economy and crumbling public services. But, lurking under each stone we lift, a frankly scandalous legacy.

Prisons running out of spaces and a broken housing market, causing untold economic and social hardship that has left few communities untouched.