Our chance to build

摘要

Councils are back in the business of building homes and it's desperately needed. The facts and figures of the country's housing crisis are well rehearsed. Britain has only ever met society's demand for housing in the decades when councils contributed millions of homes on top of private sector supply. There is ever more appetite from councils of all political persuasions to deliver more themselves. In Ealing, we have delivered around 500 council homes over the last six years. We're scaling up now to build one of the largest programmes in London: 1,200 genuinely affordable homes at the lowest rents. And we're far from alone in having this scale of ambition.