Social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear at current building rate’
Research shows generations of children in England will grow up homeless unless government addresses council housing debt, charity says It would take more than a century to clear the social housing waiting lists in England at the government’s current speed of delivering new social homes, research by Shelter has shown. The housing charity found that more than 1.3m households are on a waiting list for a social home, but only 12,198 were built by councils, housing associations or
New research from the housing charity Shelter indicates that England's social housing waiting lists are so extensive that it would take 119 years to clear them at the current pace of construction. Over 1.3 million households are currently waiting for a social home, yet only a fraction of that number, just over 12,000, were built last year by various developers. This significant disparity means that for every new social home completed, 110 households are waiting for accommodation.
This situation highlights a critical shortfall in affordable housing, potentially leaving generations of families without stable homes and exacerbating homelessness issues.
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