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Housing crisis: Government promises a million new homes in less than five years

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21st Sep 15 10:06 am

A million homes in this parliament

The government says it will aim to build a million homes by 2020 in a bid to tackle Britainโ€™s worsening housing shortage.

According to the BBC, housing minister Brandon Lewis said the target of a million would help to tackle a โ€œdecades old deficitโ€.

Lewis also added that he wanted to make it easier for developments to go ahead, โ€œespecially on brownfield sitesโ€.

The National Housing Federation estimates that just half of the 974,000 homes needed between 2001 and 2014 were actually built.

Lewis added: โ€œUltimately, it is up to local authorities to look at what their housing needs are and where they feel it is appropriate to build.

โ€œI trust local people to get that right.โ€

National Housing Federation director of policy and external affairs Gill Payne told the BBC: โ€œSkyrocketing rents and ballooning house prices are eating up more and more of peopleโ€™s wages and forcing people out of their local communities or into smaller, lower quality housing.

โ€œWe havenโ€™t built enough homes in this country for decades, and if the gap between the number of households forming and the number of new homes being built continues to grow, we are in danger of not being able to house our children.โ€

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