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Centre for Policy Studies<\/a> (CPS) analysis has revealed the 2010s will see the least amount of new houses built since WW2<\/h2>\n

The Prime Minister has described resolving the housing crisis as \u2018the biggest domestic policy challenge of our generation\u2019.<\/p>\n

New Centre for Policy Studies research on the housing crisis shows the full scale of that challenge. With one year to go, the 2010s will see housebuilding figures in England come in below any decade since the Second World War \u2013 part of a 50-year pattern in which each decade has seen fewer new homes built than the last. Robert Colvile<\/a>, Director of the CPS, has written about the findings in The Daily Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the Government\u2019s recent efforts to boost construction, new-build housing<\/a> completions in England between 2010 and 2019 are set to be\u00a0approximately 130,000 per year \u2013 well below the 147,000 of the 2000s or 150,000 of the 1990s, and half of the level in the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n

In the 1960s, the new-build construction<\/a> rate in England was roughly the equivalent of one home for every 14\u00a0people over the decade. In the 2010s,\u00a0that ratio was one to 43, more than three times higher.<\/p>\n

The figures are\u00a0improved somewhat when you factor in conversions of existing properties, which push the total up,\u00a0but even then, the total of net additional dwellings is likely to be lower this decade than last.<\/p>\n

Robert Colvile, Director of the Centre for Policy Studies, commented: \u201cThe housing crisis is blighting the lives of a generation, and robbing them of the dream of homeownership.<\/p>\n

“But as this analysis shows, this is not just the consequence of the financial crisis \u2013 it is part of a pattern stretching back half a century, in which we have steadily built fewer and fewer new homes.<\/p>\n

“The Government has rightly promised to focus on this issue, and there are encouraging signs that housebuilding is picking\u00a0up. Ministers need to take bold\u00a0action in 2019 to ensure that the 2020s become the decade in which we break this hugely damaging cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across the United Kingdom as a whole, the pattern is broadly similar, with housebuilding falling\u00a0from a peak of 3.6 million new units\u00a0in the 1960s to 1.9 million in the 1990s and 2000s, with the 2010s set to come in lower still.<\/p>\n

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