The statistics behind the UK’s housing crisis

Government fails to build any of the 200,000 new starter homes it pledged in 2014

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Statistics revealing that the Government has failed to build any of the 200,000 new starter homes it promised in 2014 have once again thrown Britain’s deepening housing crisis into focus.

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