“Britain’s housing crisis is acute: the nation today has a backlog of 4.3m homes.
In England as a whole, 1.3m households are on the waiting list for social housing.
"The housing crisis in our city has been going on for years but it's now reached a whole new level," he said. "London is building more council homes than at any time since the 1970s but it's just not enough, we've got to build more.” Southwark Council
Compared to other European countries, Britain has a backlog of millions of homes that are missing from the housing market. Building these homes is key to solving the nation's housing crisis.