Michael Gove has dropped mandatory housing targets. Does this mean the houses needed will not emerge? Not necessarily if local councils take their housing responsibility with complete commitment.
To do this they must face the conflict most council areas face, the need for enough new houses sufficient to make them affordable. Will councils step up to the plate?
Perhaps Gove has an another agenda? He has passed over a very hot potato to the councils. And he has the a great alibi, they asked him to do so. So what will happen now?
This needs more consideration.
Ian Campbell
5 December 2022
