And in one of the week's more unusual stories, we reported on a public housingextension in Italy that was made from plastic shopping bags and other bits of non-renewable packaging.
That's why he recently instituted the extension of the housing loan forbearance program, because those who have been -- who are struggling to stay in their homes, been unemployed, he believes it was essential to help them.
For us, expanding opportunity means not the backward-looking plans of Labour's Deputy Leadership candidates - who only see a future for more state-owned and run housing - but helping young people onto the housing ladder through a massive extension of shared ownership and the right to buy.