Recommendation 6

To demonstrate its progress to improving the affordability of home ownership, MHCLG should, before the start of the summer parliamentary recess publish annual homebuilding targets for each remaining year of the Parliament. These should show how government expects homebuilding to ramp up over the session and allow us and other analysts to assess whether the government remains on track to deliver its target of 1.5 million new homes before the end of the Parliament. As well as homebuilding targets for the total number of homes, MHCLG should publish annual homebuilding targets for affordable housing and social housing. (Recommendation, Paragraph 43)