‘We have not built enough homes’ admits Michael Gove

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Housing secretary quizzed on latest homelessness figures

Michael Gove has admtted the government is not building enough homes.

On  BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday, Gove said: “There’s an increasing pressure on housing supply … We have not been building enough homes, we have not been creating the new housing that matches the new formation of households.”

Gove added: “The biggest issue overall is that whether it’s in the private rental sector, the socially rented sector, or homes to buy, we still need to increase the supply of homes.”

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