Nearly ten years ago Kate Barker's review of housing supply
in England
estimated that we need to build 250,000 homes a year to slow house price
inflation to the European average and meet housing need. In not a single one of the years since then
has this target been met, and the cumulative shortfall has now passed a
million. This week Shelter published 'Solutions for the Housing Shortage' which
analyses the reasons why supply continues to lag and sets out proposals to
boost output to the number needed.
Download a copy of the report from the Shelter website.
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