A sharp decline in new home building by housing
associations and local authorities this year could wreck the government’s plans
to build 1m new homes by 2020. Housebuilding by the public sector slumped in
October, according to official figures, adding to a series of month-on-month
falls going back to the election that undermine minister’s claims of a
revolution in house building. George Osborne told MPs in his autumn statement
last month that measures to support housebuilding would add 400,000 affordable
homes by 2020. His comments followed a claim by housing minister Brandon Lewis
that a successful housing policy would result “in a total of something like a
million homes” by the end of the parliament. Read more on the Guardian website.
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