Britain faces a shortfall of 1,000,000 homes within eight years unless local and national councils dramatically speed up their rate of house building.
Some councils are decades behind where they need to be if they intend to meet Government estimates of how many homes need to be built in the coming years.
At current rates the average local authority would need an extra 6.2 years to build the homes the Government has estimated will be needed by 2026, according to analysis by Project Etopia, the modular homes builder.
Most of the furthest behind boroughs are in London.
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Redbridge is estimated to need 26,000 new homes by 2026 but built just 318 annually on average over the five years to 2017.
With the same labor shortage in Britain that we face here it may take even longer to get those 1M new homes and probably by the time they reach that goal they will need a million more.
Modular construction is the only answer that can even begin to solve both Britain’s and our housing shortages.
