The official figures highlighted by housing charity,
Shelter, also show 290,000 homes became available in 2017, leaving a shortfall
nationally of about 800,000. But fewer than 14,000 of these were newly-built
homes. Most became available after tenants were evicted, died, or simply moved
on inside or outside the social housing sector. In some local areas, the number
of available homes is dwarfed by the number of households on waiting lists. The
gap is being caused by the lack of new social homes being built and the fact
that many existing ones are sold off through right to buy without the proceeds
having been used to build new ones. Read more on the BBC website.
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