The government remains in a race against time to get its
promise to build 200,000 starter homes into law. Peers defied ministers over
its Housing Bill, voting to reinstate a number of measures rejected by MPs.
They backed calls to give councils more room to consider alternative sources of
affordable housing while allowing them to keep part of the money when they sell
off high value homes. Ministers have made several concessions after suffering
18 defeats on the bill. The bill is "ping-ponging" between the two
houses - with the government desperate to get it into law before the end of the
current parliamentary session. If it fails to do so, it could see its manifesto
commitment to building hundreds of thousands of "starter homes" in
England and Wales delayed. Read more on the BBC website.
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