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Thread: It's easy for government to make announcements like the Prime Minister's 240,000 homes per year (2007) or the Chancellor's 300,000 homes per year this weekend but...
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I'm not trying to be negative. The point is that if government is serious about building 300,000 homes per year, we need a long-term government plan irrespective of constant changes in housing minister (lasting 16 months on average in the past 20 years)...
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Announcing a large target for PR with a few gimmicks but allowing the market to collapse & blaming investors for land hoarding, house builders for land banking, lack of brick layers &/or bricks & complaining about low productivity helps no one.
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