London homes gap fuels housing crisis

摘要

London's failure to increase its rate of housebuilding is one of the main factors exacerbating the UK housing crisis, government figures have revealed, writes Joey Gardiner. According to the government's recently introduced standard method for assessing housing need, England needs to build 196,000 homes each year outside the capital. Last year the regions came close to this target, providing 190,472 new homes, with all regions in the Midlands and Northern England exceeding their quotas.