Housing minister Kit Malthouse has said he wants to free up anyone keen to contribute to achieving the government’s target of building 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s.

Speaking at the launch of a report from New London Architecture which suggested public housing was seeing a comeback in London, Malthouse said public housing had a part to play in the government’s goal of delivering 300,000 homes a year.

“There is a resurgence in the provision of public housing and [this is] something that we are doing our best to encourage – and as the NLA has pointed out, we have this enormous, historical target to hit and we are determined to try and do so by the mid 2020s,” he said.