Local authorities built 3,540 homes in the UK in 2017/18, the highest in 17 years. according to latest figures from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, but a total of 12,059 council homes were sold.
A total of 192,000 homes were completed in the UK in 2017/18 of which 156,000 were by private sector, and 32, 570 were by housing associations. The total was the highest since 2007/8 when the recession hit but still below the peak decades of the 1960s and 1970s.
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