MP says housing targets should specify affordable numbers

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Public Accounts Committee chair speaks out in wake of controversy over watering down of central targets

Central housing targets are needed but should be for different tenures, the chair of the Public Accounts Committee Meg Hillier has told Housing Today. 

Just one central target can “mean you end up building all sorts of housing of the wrong type”, Hillier said, after the release of a report yesterday that showed the government will fall short of its Affordable Housing Programme targets.

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