Call for action as housing starts decline again

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Calls for a reform of the government's Right to Buy programme have grown after new figures show that the number of housing starts across England in the last quarter fell by 8% year-on-year, writes Hamish Champ.Data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government also shows the 37,200 new-build housing starts in the quarter to the end of June were 2% lower than the January to March period, when they had fallen by 8%.Annual new-build housing starts totalled 160,640 in the six months to the end of June, down by 1% year-on-year.