Housing (chapter)
As Parliament returns from its summer recess, the Resolution Foundation and UK in a Changing Europe have partnered to produce the Policy Landscape 2025 report - a series of evidence-led, research-based assessments of the main policy challenges facing the UK, and how politicians could respond.
Housebuilding and reform of the planning system were central to Labour's growth agenda and housing policy. Their target was 1.5m homes built by the end of this parliament: 300,000 homes a year, well above the 163,430 a year actually built over 2020-24. Over 3m fewer homes were built in the 30 years to 2019 than in the previous 30 years - 4.5 million fewer homes over the whole 1945-2014 period - relative to European peers.
2 September 2025
Published in Policy Landscape 2025 from UK in a Changing Europe and Resolution Foundation
UK in a Changing Europe
This External report is part of the centre's Community Wellbeing programme, Urban programme, Neighbourhoods programme.
This publication comes under the following theme: Housing