The Conservative party has pledged to build an additional 400,000 homes over five years if it comes to power.
As part of the party’s manifesto, launched today, David Cameron said that money generated from extending the Right to Buy scheme would be put into a fund to build new homes.
Money raised would be used to help councils re-activate derelict land on brownfield sites to build homes.
The Tories’ 400,000 figure trumps the Liberal Democrats’ pledge to build 300,000 homes within the decade and Labour’s commitment to building 200,000 homes per year by 2020.
Labour and other critics, however, claimed that the Conservatives’ numbers didn’t add up and that the strategy was untenable.
