Labour to bring back mandatory housing targets

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Party aiming for 70% home ownership amid rumours Sunak will revive Help to Buy later this year

Labour will restore mandatory housing targets in a bid to build 300,000 homes a year, Kier Starmer has said.

In a series of statements outlining the party’s housing policy in the lead up to this week’s local elections, Starmer said he wanted Labour to become “the party of home ownership” with seven in 10 homes built for homeownership.

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