Britain needs a council housing revolution, architects are today telling ministers.

The government needs to support and resource local authorities to deliver a generation of quality council housing across the country – and reform the way it is procured.

This would end the housing crisis which sees 1.15m households on social housing waiting lists – and create 250,000 jobs at a time when covid and uncertainty around Brexit are leading to thousands of redundancies, according to research by the RIBA.

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