Can we achieve 1.5 million new homes by 2029?

We ask people in Birmingham

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00:00The housing, for me, £1.5 million won't even stress the service.

00:06It needs to be a lot more.

00:08Myself personally, just walking around Birmingham alone,

00:11and it's all over the country, there's so many homeless people everywhere.

00:15I've spoken to some of them and they've got nowhere to go,

00:19no help at all, and I think we need to start looking at that on a big scale.

00:25And the housing, again, £1.5 million won't stress the service.

00:28I think the other thing we need to remember is that previously,

00:34and I might have my data a little bit wrong here,

00:36but previously the government were insisting that we built an awful lot of houses

00:40because of the urban overspill, and then they did a U-turn on that.

00:45I think it was the end of 2022-23, and that dramatically reduced

00:49the amount of houses people were supposed to build,

00:51and that was under the Conservatives.

00:53Now the Conservatives are moaning about what Labour's doing,

00:55so I think it's really difficult for people to know what the truth is, to be honest.