There is a massive housing crisis in England and Wales The country’s housing shortage is fast approaching one million homes, yet we are building less now than at any point since the Second World War. The stark statistic is revealed in the HBF’s election manifesto and is a warning to MPs that they desperately need to wake up to the mounting housing crisis. The manifesto outlines the steps that urgently need taking to increase supply; Attached are two versions of the HBF manifesto, the detailed report and the bullet point publication which we produced in March 2010 for the HBF Policy Conference.