The government's own advisers have warned that even if it meets its increasingly ambitious target of building 2 million homes by 2016, housing affordability will continue to worsen. Advice from the National Mousing Planning Advisory Unit (NHPAU), issued to ministers this week, says a total of 2.3 million homes would be needed before 2016 in order to keep affordability at current levels. This is despite a prediction last week by the Construction Products Association that housing output this year could fall to its lowest level since the Second World War. The NHPAU recommends that between 231,500 and 276,900 homes should be built each year between now and 2016. This is equivalent to building between 2 million and 2.3 million homes.
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