Andy Burnham inherits a major challenge with housebuilding targets (Picture: Temilade Adelaja – WPA Pool/Getty Images)Andy Burnham’s government needs 300 people to join the construction workforce each day to reach its housebuilding target, new research has found – but instead, it’s losing 200 a day. Labour set out its ambition to build 1.5 million new homes in England ‘over the next parliament’ in its 2024 manifesto. To hit 1.5 million homes by July 2029 – around the time when the current parliament is set to end – 1,008 new homes will be needed every day. An LVC spokesperson said: ‘That is not a housing programme, it is astaffing shortage with a housing target attached.’ ‘Alongside our planning reforms and the £16 billion National Housing Bank this will ensure we build the homes this country needs.’