As per the calculations of the National Housing Federation, only 122,700 homes have been built in England, since April 2009. The number has reduced pretty much, as comapred to the previous records.

NHS, thus warns, that the slump may leave millions of people, trapped in overcrowded and substandard housing, in the coming generations.

According to NHS, the fall in the building figures for 2009/10, is mainly due to lack of private development.

“The delivery of new homes this year has been propped up by housing associations, who have built just under half the total number, with the aid of record levels of public investment and more flexible government grants via the Home and Communities Agency”, David Orr, the Chief Executive in NHS.

“With record housing waiting lists and overcrowding reaching epidemic proportions in many places across the country, the need for more affordable housing has never been greater”, he added.

He also said that there’s a need of a new way to get the country building, which is why Conservatives will scrap Labour’s useless top-down housing targets and instead work with communities to create the homes.

“Liberal Democrat housing spokesperson Sarah Teather said the shortage of affordable housing is ‘the legacy of decades of underinvestment and neglect by consecutive Tory and Labour governments. The housing shortage is one of the biggest crises facing Britain today and tackling it must be a priority of any future government”, said Sarah Teather, the spokesperson of the Liberal Democrat Housing.