The leader of Wolverhampton's local authority has said the city's housing market is "completely broken" and only a "mass build" can resolve the issue.was his "biggest concern as leader", adding council housing stock had been depleted by the right-to-buy scheme in the 1980s.
In August the government said it aimed to build the homes over the next five years, helped by planning reforms, the release of green belt land and the reintroduction of mandatory housing targets for local authorities."I welcome the government to say that we want to build houses," he said. "We're ready in Wolverhampton to build them to resolve the issues."
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