Our analysis has revealed that England lost almost 35,000
social homes in a year. Although we still only have figures up to March 2013,
in that year there was a net loss of nearly 35,000 social-rented homes in
England. This is almost certainly the first time in a decade that we’ve
actually seen a downturn in numbers of social lettings. How has this come
about? Output of new homes was over 32,000 in that year, but of course even in
2012/13 many of these were built to be let at higher Affordable Rents. Right to
buy and other losses of council-owned stock amounted to over 7,000 units, and a
significant number of housing association properties that fell vacant were
converted to Affordable Rents to boost associations’ incomes. Read more on the
CIH website.
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