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People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

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

Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.

There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.

What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don't have the resources necessary to fill that gap.

So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing.

Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it.

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.

If we allow more development, it will bring housing affordability.

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.