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POLICY AND POLITICS

Conservatives call for reduced affordable housing targets

Shadow housing secretary Sir James Cleverly has suggested affordable housing targets for new developments should be dropped.

Sir James Cleverly © parliament.uk

Shadow housing secretary Sir James Cleverly has suggested affordable housing targets for new developments should be dropped.

In his speech to the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Sir James said: ‘We have affordable housing targets so high they basically prevent anything getting built.

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