Stahl has pledged to compensate for the affordable units that might be lost if the buildings are demolished.

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He also called for increased efforts to build and distribute fairly the 36 million units of affordable "social housing" that the government has pledged to construct over the next five years to help meet demand from migrants and ease property prices.

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The Welsh government has pledged to build a new system of paying for social care that was "fair, affordable and sustainable in the long term".

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