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Thousands of New Affordable Homes Promised for West Midlands, but Questions Remain over Where They Will Go – NATIONAL NEWS

BBC Verify says annual social-home building remains far below the 90,000 needed to meet demand, despite Labour’s pledge to build 1.5 million homes by 2029.

Thousands of new social and affordable homes could be built across the West Midlands under a major new funding programme, but the announcement is likely to intensify debate over where the homes will go, whether local infrastructure can cope and what the new developments will actually look like. The West Midlands is among six areas of England included in the first allocation from the Government’s £39 billion social and affordable housing programm…

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BBC News broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Monday, August 24, 2026.
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