The government is expected to announce on Sunday a programme to build 12 new towns across England in a bid to address the country’s housing crisis. It comes as the new towns taskforce, established in September last year, publishes a report with a raft of recommendations for fresh developments across the country. The taskforce is expected to say that, collectively, the new towns could deliver “up to 300,000” homes over the “coming decades”. We’ve got to ‘build, baby, build’. Academics say Britain faces a shortage of about 4.3m homes, and there are record numbers of people living in temporary accommodation.