Councils in England face ‘impossible decisions’ to build or repair homes

Exclusive: Financial pressures undermining government’s housebuilding targets, survey of local authorities says

Councils are having to “make impossible decisions” between building new homes and repairing old ones due to increasing financial pressure, undermining the government’s housebuilding targets, according to a survey of local authorities.

The Local Government Association (LGA) found that less than half (38%) of councils were confident they would be able to invest in planned new-build housing programmes, even after raising social housing rents.