With the equivalent of a Birmingham-sized city moving in in the past two years, the CPS said over half a million new homes will be needed each year.
Based on newly revised migration figures, England has under-built by 1.34 million homes in the past decade, according to the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) think tank.
The CPS published an analysis on Monday suggesting half a million more homes were needed in 2022, around 73 percent higher than the government’s 300,000-a-year housing target, which has never been met.
The think tank called on the government to get net migration down to manageable levels while “significantly” speeding up housebuilding.
The net migration figures are lower when looking at years ending in June—607,000 in the year ending June 2022 and 672,000 in the year ending June 2023—but the CPS said these figures “could well be revised upwards in due course.”
Combined with net migration of 467,000 in 2021, the UK’s population has grown by the equivalent of a…
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