The number of people living in overcrowded housing will hit three million within the next three years – as a chronic shortage of affordable homes and the impact of the recession forces increasing numbers of families to live in cramped conditions. The National Housing Federation predicts a 20% rise in the number of families living in overcrowded housing by 2013, from 2.55m in 2008 year to 3.04m in 2013. The Federation blamed the dramatic slump in house-building for fuelling the crisis. The number of new homes built in England and Wales in 2009/10 – 123,000 – was the lowest number built in 87 years as developers mothballed new developments during the downturn. Read the full story on the NHF website below.
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