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Housing targets: how are the government's 1.5 million ambitions stacking up?

The government is pulling a number of levers to increase housebuilding
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has been pulling a number of levers to increase housebuilding. (Photo by Lucy North - Pool/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has been pulling a number of levers to increase housebuilding. (Photo by Lucy North - Pool/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
By John Bosworth
Maples Teesdale
June 17, 2025 | 8:10 AM

At the general election the Labour Party made a manifesto promise to build 1.5 million new homes in England over the course of the current parliament, setting itself an ambitious construction target. Recent estimates have cast doubt on the Government hitting these targets, but nobody can doubt its ambition to do so.

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