A report has outlined a series of new ways in which the number of affordable homes in Wales might be increased.
Former minister Sue Essex suggested allowing housing associations to borrow £100 million to build 6,500 affordable homes as part of the solution to the problem, the BBC reports.
Other ideas forwarded by Ms Essex included obliging private developers to make a proportion of their new homes on each development affordable and making councils find more land for building.
A recent report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation had warned that some rural areas could lose their young people if the problem is not tackled.
One body which may play a part in the development of more affordable homes is the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH).
Earlier this week the body revealed that the government's Homes and Communities Agency has said it is keen to work in partnership with the CIH in achieving targets such as the building of three million new homes by 2020.
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