Land promoters call for action on ‘110,000-home annual affordable housing shortfall’

Affordable housing

Report finds that having up-to-date local plans is key to delivering more affordable homes

A network of land promotion and development businesses has has identified a shortage of almost 110,000 new affordable homes a year, and called on the government to insist every local authority has an up-to-date local plan to drive up numbers. 

In a report called An Affordable Housing Emergency, released this week, The Land Promoters and Developers Federation (LDPF) said that on average only 35,500 net additional affordable homes have been produced annually in the last decade, when you take account of losses via Right to Buy.

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