Government ignores MPs’ call for 90,000 a-year social homes plan

Affordable housing

Select committee chair says housing ministry has failed to address request

The government has side-stepped a call from MPs for a social housebuilding programme designed to rebuild the economy in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.

The request came this summer in a report from the housing select committee, which also asked the government to set specific quantity targets for the different types of affordable housing that it expects to be built each year.

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