"The result, they say, is that thousands of sites earmarked for affordable and social housing are not being built despite the enormous need."
"It is a major and growing problem that is increasingly threatening affordable and overall housing supply," says Steve Turner, executive director at the Home Builders Federation.
"The largest problem, experts tell us, is that housing providers - predominantly housing associations - no longer have as much money to spend on buying new properties as they did before."
"Housing associations are mostly not-for-profit organisations that buy up affordable properties and rent them as social homes to low-income tenants at discounted rates..."
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