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Government assurances that the private sector would build the new homes Britain nee Hyper Facebook(tm) Traffic ds have fallen flat.
Brand new figures show that the number of new homes registered in the third quarter of 2012 was 6% down on the same quarter last year. Private homes saw a 7% decline and the number of new social housing units was down 5%.
The total number of new homes registered across the country in the third quarter of this year was just 28,151 – enough homes to house those on the waiting list in Tower Hamlets alone with just a little to spare. In Greater London just 4,841 new homes were registered in this period, compared with 6,308 in the same quarter in 2011 – down by a quarter.
It’s time the Government woke up, loosened the purse strings and let Councils build again.
This article appears in the new edition of East London News.
