English: The primary reason we have a shortage of social housing is because, without going back over prehistory, the Welsh Governments in the first three Assembly terms took the decision to give it low priority in their funding, and they cut the supply of new social housing over 12 years by over 70 per cent. There were warnings from the sector, from the commercial through to the charitable sector, that this would happen. Each time I, often supported by Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats in those days, put down a motion highlighting the warnings of a Welsh housing crisis, the response from the Welsh Government wasn't to respond to the substantive concerns raised by the housing sector, but it was to put down an amendment removing the term 'Welsh housing crisis'. That was a betrayal. That is the primary reason we're here today. There's an element of catch-up now, but, sadly, still, the numbers of social homes being provided are massively below levels required. There's some masking going on with the use of the term 'affordable housing', but we know that that includes intermediate rent, low-cost home ownership and anything else that can be added in to help the Welsh Government deliver a target that is still massively below the levels that successive independent reports have told us we need. We know, from independent research, that the average council house tenant resident in their home today will stay in that home for another 15 years. So, the impact on increasing supply for people on waiting lists, or people in housing crisis, will be negligible. But since 2010 in England, and since 2010 with devolved powers to Welsh Ministers, there's the opportunity to use the proceeds to build new social houses - council houses - and take some people off the housing waiting list, which this proposal will not achieve. With David Melding's amendments, at least some money could be realised to build some new social housing and take some people off the housing waiting lists in volumes that the alternative you're proposing couldn't even dream to achieve. You are biting off your nose to spite your face. It's poor housing economics, and, unfortunately, it's simply adding to the betrayal over housing in the previous terms of this Assembly.
Welsh: Y prif reswm dros brinder tai cymdeithasol yw, heb fynd yn ôl i hen hanes, fod Llywodraethau Cymru yn nhri thymor cyntaf y Cynulliad wedi penderfynu rhoi blaenoriaeth isel i hynny yn eu cyllid, a thorrwyd dros 70 y cant ar y cyflenwad o dai cymdeithasol newydd dros gyfnod o 12 mlynedd. Cafwyd rhybuddion gan y sector, o'r sector masnachol i'r sector elusennol, y byddai hyn yn digwydd. Bob tro, yn aml gyda chefnogaeth Plaid Cymru a'r Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol yn y dyddiau hynny, y byddwn i'n gwneud cynnig yn tynnu sylw at y rhybuddion o argyfwng tai Cymru, yr ymateb gan Lywodraeth Cymru oedd peidio ag ymateb i'r pryderon sylweddol a godwyd gan y sector tai, ond cyflwyno gwelliant i gael gwared ar y term 'argyfwng tai Cymru'. Roedd hynny'n frad. Dyna'r rheswm sylfaenol dros fod yma heddiw. Bellach, ceir elfen o ddal i fyny, ond, yn anffodus, yn dal i fod, mae nifer y tai cymdeithasol a ddarperir yn sylweddol is na'r lefelau gofynnol. Mae rhywfaint o gelu yn mynd ymlaen gyda'r defnydd o'r term 'tai fforddiadwy', ond gwyddom fod hynny'n cynnwys rhent canolradd, perchentyaeth cost isel ac unrhyw beth arall y gellir ei ychwanegu i helpu Llywodraeth Cymru i gyflawni targed sy'n dal yn sylweddol is na'r lefelau y mae adroddiadau annibynnol olynol wedi dweud sydd eu hangen arnom. Gwyddom, o ymchwil annibynnol, y bydd y tenant tai cyngor cyffredin sy'n preswylio yn ei gartref heddiw yn aros yn y cartref hwnnw am 15 mlynedd arall. Felly, bydd yr effaith ar gynyddu'r cyflenwad o bobl ar restrau aros, neu'r bobl mewn argyfwng tai, yn ddibwys. Ond ers 2010 yn Lloegr, ac ers 2010 gyda'r pwerau sydd wedi'u datganoli i Weinidogion Cymru, mae cyfle i ddefnyddio'r enillion i adeiladu tai cymdeithasol newydd - tai cyngor - a thynnu rhai pobl oddi ar y rhestr aros am dai, ond ni fydd y cynnig hwn yn ei gyflawni. Gyda gwelliannau David Melding, gellid sicrhau o leiaf rhywfaint o arian i adeiladu rhai tai cymdeithasol newydd a thynnu rhai pobl oddi ar restrau aros am dai mewn niferoedd na allai'r dull amgen yr ydych chi'n ei gynnig hyd yn oed freuddwydio am ei gyflawni. Mae hynny'n hunanddinistriol. Mae'n wael o ran economeg tai, ac, yn anffodus, mae'n ychwanegu at y brad a fu yn ystod tymhorau blaenorol y Cynulliad hwn.