Housing associations have welcomed shadow chancellor Ed Balls' call for 100,000 new affordable homes - for rent and purchase - to be built over the next two years.
Mr Balls made his address at the Labour party's annual conference today in Manchester in which he said that the Government's economic plan is "failing" and the need to kick-start the economy is "even more urgent".
The 100,000-homes pledge builds on last year's commitment to build 25,000 social homes funded by a tax on bankers' bonuses...
