It was the centre-piece of his conference speech. The
Prime Minister said he wanted a "national crusade to get homes
built". The first set of significant house building figures since then have
just been published. They are from the National House Building Council - which
provides building certificates for new homes. And they make for pretty gloomy
reading. Overall, registrations for new homes fell by 2% in the last three
months compared with the same period last year. In the private sector, new
building registrations fell by 1%. While in the public sector - that's largely
homes built by housing associations which tend to be more often in the
"affordable" category - the number was down a more precipitate 4%.
Download the figures from the NHBC website.
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