Local authorities struggling to deliver new social housing as budgets on the ‘brink of collapse’
ENGLISH councils warned today that Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s housing target of 1.5 million new homes is in jeopardy without an injection of funding.
Research commissioned by London’s Southwark Council showed that 93 per cent of English councils’ housing budgets are revealing signs of financial stress.
The research found most local authorities’ budgets are on the “brink of collapse,” suggesting Ms Rayner’s“council housing revolution” may be at risk.
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