Government has ‘failed to build a single starter home’, says watchdog

By Hamish Champ2019-11-05T09:34:00

Not a single starter home has been delivered using special £2.3bn fund established for the purpose

The government has been lambasted by the chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of MPs after it emerged that despite promising five years ago to spend £2bn building 60,000 starter homes no such housing has actually been delivered.

A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) said that plans to create 200,000 starter homes for first-time buyers had come to nothing, and that the £2.3bn – including a £1.2bn brownfield fund – proposed in the November 2015 Spending Review to deliver 60,000 such homes instead ended up being spent on other residential programmes, including affordable housing.

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