Run your council, then run England.
Ten years, official figures, no free choices. Pick your area and what matters most to you. Then see what it takes.
Set up
Showing England until you choose a council.
Homes built a year
Average of the last three years
Homes needed a year
Under the migration scenario below
House price to earnings
Median price ÷ median local pay, 2025
2. What matters most to you?
3. Pick a migration scenario
Each scenario is an official ONS projection of new households, for England and for every council. Building homes does not change it.
Act 1: run your council
Choose a council above to start.
Starts at what the council built over the last three years.
At 31 homes a hectare (MHCLG, 2021 to 2022).
£130,000 a home, the 2026 to 2036 programme average.
Of the homes needed
Homes short after ten years
Green Belt used
Social rent grant, ten years
What it takes locally over ten years
Extra people
Police officers
To keep 236 per 100,000
Megalitres of water a day
Stamp duty on a typical home here
First-time buyer
Home mover
Second home or buy-to-let
New homes are zero-rated for VAT. Repairs, extensions and improvements to an existing home are normally charged VAT at 20% (HMRC VAT Notice 708).
What policy adds to a new home here
| Item | Government figure | Housebuilders’ claim (HBF) |
|---|
Government figures come from official guidance and impact assessments of different years, so they are not added together. HBF is the Home Builders Federation, the housebuilders’ trade body, which has an interest in these figures. It claims £76,000 has been added to each new home since 2020, including £37,000 of materials and labour inflation. Land and build costs are not published in any free official source.
Act 2: run England
Starts at 208,600, England's net additions in 2024 to 2025.
New households come from your migration scenario. England's price relation is linear over ten years, all else equal.
House prices over ten years
Green Belt hectares
Social rent grant, ten years
What it takes in England over ten years
Extra people
Police officers
England and Wales ratio
Megalitres of water a day
EA projects a 5,000 a day shortfall by 2055
England's build rate is not shared out between councils here. A national total cannot be split without inventing where the homes would go, so this count depends only on your migration scenario.
Where building falls furthest behind under this scenario
Councils ranked by homes built over the last three years as a share of homes needed, lowest first. Councils needing fewer than 200 homes a year are left out.
| Rank | Council | Built | Needed | Share |
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Temporary housing today
Households in temporary accommodation
England, 31 March 2026, including 177,530 children
People in asylum hotels
UK, end of June 2026. People, not households, so not comparable with the figure beside it
Your verdict
Choose a council to see your verdict.
Written by AI from the numbers above.
What this does not claim
Not a forecast. The price relation is "all else equal". Incomes and interest rates also move prices, by the same source's own figures.
No local price change. The price relation holds for England as a whole. People move between areas.
No brownfield capacity. Brownfield registers are incomplete, so the game cannot say whether your council could avoid Green Belt.
No crime, opposition or carbon scores. No sourced relation exists for them.
The AI computes nothing. Every number comes from the model. The AI only describes them.
Sources
Sources checked on 15 September 2026. Slider ranges and the ten-year period are choices for this game.