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Walking into the communities department's home at 2 Marsham Street, it's fair to say there's no shortage of things to talk to housing and planning minister Brandon Lewis about. Since the new government was formed just three months ago the industry has already seen a huge shake-up in the policy agenda. While the planned extension of the right to buy policy to housing associations was at least contained in the party's manifesto, the abandoning of the zero carbon policy and the ripping up of the housing association sector's 10-year rents settlement most definitely weren't. There have also been big proposals to reform the planning system, reductions in tax breaks for residential landlords, and - linking all the changes together - a shift to promoting home ownership, seemingly over and above other tenures.