England is still falling short of house-building targets set in the Conservative manifesto in 2017
The government set a target of 300,000 new homes to be built annually by the mid-2020s but in 2019/20 only 242,700 net dwellings were built, and this dropped in 2020/21 to only 216,460. Included in these numbers are the government’s targets for social housing (discounted rent and affordable ownership) which were set at 180,000 during … Continued