Claim: The number of social rented homes fell by 420,000 under Labour.
Fact-check: Labour's affordable housing record - Full Fact
Verdict: this refers to all homes rented from councils and housing associations. we don't know what exactly happened to homes for the cheapest "social rent" specifically under labour, but more of them were built on average between 1997 and 2010 than since 2010.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2017-04-26T00:00:00