What is happening with the government’s housing delivery target of 300,000 homes a year? If we look at official quarterly housing completions and start on site figures, is there a trend on who is building and where, and what does this tell us?

As we are all aware the government is sticking to its 300,000 homes a year target, however, even before covid this was a very tall order. The official figures for the number of dwellings completed in year 2017/18 are 160,910 and in year 2019/20 175,250, an increase of 3.4% in a pandemic year.

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