In response to this problem, in December 2024, Homes England (an executive non-departmental body sponsored by the Department) began the Section 106 Affordable Housing Clearing Service that allows developers to upload details of new homes for which they have been unable to find a buyer and encourages buyers and sellers to connect with each other.38 We asked the Department whether it thought the Clearing Service was working. It told us that over 100 local authorities, over 100 developers and nearly 200 RPs had signed up to it, and that around 800 unsold housing units had been listed.39