Overcrowding rates are eight times higher in social
housing than with owner-occupiers, hitting the highest level since government
records began 24 years ago. Stats in the English Housing Survey show more than
300,000 households squeezed into too few rooms. And more than quarter million
households are also living in overcrowded PRS housing – the second highest
level recorded since 1996. Shelter, running a cross-party campaign for new
social housing, says the stats show a market “full to bursting”. Read more on
the MHCLG website.
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Campaigners say government is letting landlords ‘drag their feet’ and
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