Salford Mayor Paul Dennett says new government housing targets from deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner are unrealistic.
The new plans include higher local council targets for house building across the country.
Housing experts at the Local Government Chronicle say the formula would generate a target of an extra 1,475 new homes in Salford.
Councils say individual targets do not take local infrastructure, land shortage and other factors into account.
Salford Mayor Paul Dennett told the BBC: “It’s about looking at your housing waiting list, it’s about looking at the impacts around homelessness and rough sleeping and building the homes that communities and residents need.”
He asked the government not to control housing from Westminster and Whitehall.
The Labour government as threatened to overrule council decisions to try to achieve its aim of delivering 1.9 million new homes by 2029.
In order to meet the 1.9m target, there would have to be 374,000 new homes built across England from 2024, when in 2024 there were 225,000 new homes built, hence the significant increases in targets across England to meet these numbers.
The housing targets will mostly include the building of new private housing, however, most major projects now only get approved if they include some support for new social housing.
The difference between social and affordable housing is that social housing is targeted specifically towards those facing significant financial hardship due to poverty or disability, whereas affordable housing is aimed towards a broader range of income, however is still subsidized by the government.
Over the past five years, an average of 310 new affordable homes have been built in Salford each year.
Another issue raised by some local authorities shows that rural areas will bear more of the brunt whereas targets for urban and inner city authorities in some parts of London might actually go down.
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