The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found that ”none of Birmingham’s biggest housing developments meet its 35% affordable housing target”.

“Of 82 of the biggest housing developments in 10 major cities [just] 40% complied with local affordable housing targets. Other than Birmingham, the cities where at least 50% of housing schemes failed to meet local affordable housing targets were Bristol, Bradford, Cardiff, Manchester and Sheffield.

We’ve extracted the parts of the BIJ data (published here) that deals with large developments in Birmingham and the renegotiation of agreements in the West Midlands – and published it in two tables below.

You can also find the Birmingham data in a Google spreadsheet here, and the West Midlands data here.

A background to how the BIJ investigated housing can be found here.

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