Whether enough homes get built, who builds them, and who can afford one. Parties are ordered left to right by our placement on the spectrum. Each line is the position in brief — open in full for the detail and where it is contested.

1. Green

   -7 on our scale

   Social housing funded from the capital programme

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   Social housing is funded from the same £90bn capital programme, alongside health and education — the party's answer to supply being public building rather than planning liberalisation.

   Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics Observatory
2. Labour

   -3 on our scale

   End rough sleeping; biggest council housebuilding since the war

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   Burnham's stated "first instruction" on entering Downing Street was to end rough sleeping. He has promised the biggest council house building programme since the post-war period, using vacant public land to hold costs down, with higher-density development in existing towns.

   Check itAndy Burnham's main policy pledges — Yahoo News
3. Lib Dems

   -2 on our scale

   Council-led building; empty homes back into use

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   Expanding council-led housebuilding, bringing empty homes back into use, and requiring developers to deliver the affordable homes they have been permitted to build.

4. Conservative

   +5 on our scale

   Scrapping stamp dutyi is the main housing measure

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   Scrapping stamp dutyi is the party's principal published housing-market measure.

   No detailed building or supply programme published under the current leadership.

   Check itWhy only the Conservatives can fix Britain's problems — Conservative Home
5. Reform

   +8 on our scale

   Restrict social housing and welfare access for migrants

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   Housing policy appears mainly through immigration: restricting welfare and social housing access for migrants.

   Little detail published on overall housing supply or building targets.

   Check itPolicies — Reform UK
6. Restore

   +9 on our scale

   No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.

5 of 6 parties have a position we could source on this. A blank row may mean the party has said little, or that we have not found what it has said.