Last week, the Government published “Delivering Homes, Building Communities”, its latest five-year plan for housing. The plan, a follow-up to “Housing for All”, has the ambitious headline target of building a minimum of 300,000 new homes by the end of 2030. The plan has been launched in the final quarter of 2025, so presumably that target is a five-year one – ie between late 2025 and late 2030. If we look at the last five years, the scale of the challenge starts to become apparent. From the fourth quarter of 2020 to the third quarter of 2025, fewer than half…

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