Ministers have been accused by Labour of dropping their
promise to build a million homes in this parliament. The party said the
government was no longer aiming to meet its pledge by May 2020, as a National
Audit Office (NAO) report showed the target for completion was December 2020 –
a delay of eight months. The NAO suggested the government is on course to
exceed the goal by the end of 2020, which will require 174,000 new homes a year
until then. Last year, around 190,000 homes were added to the housing stock.
But Labour suggested that the CLG should have been more transparent about the
longer timescale for completing the pledge. Read more on the Guardian website.
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