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The 1.5m challenge

If the Government is going to meet its lofty goal of providing 1.5 million new homes, it needs to give clarity – and some funding – quickly. Michael Palin explains

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The Government has set itself an ambitious target of delivering 1.5 million new homes within this Parliament.

It has a stated intention to increase affordable and social housing supply, to empower local authorities to do more direct delivery, and the intention to be more interventionist through the use of new powers, development corporations and creation of new towns.

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