Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: If you accept the logic of Labour's target of building 300,000 homes a year as part ...

If you accept the logic of Labour's target of building 300,000 homes a year as part of its strategy to unpick the UK dysfunctional (current) housing system, then one also has to accept that the only way that is going to happen is a massive (and I mean massive) expansion in social housing.

There's lots of talk of shifts in planning, partnerships with the private sector but as the chart shows, that target has only ever been reached in the 70 years through social housing construction!

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