Proportion of Social Housing Tenants in Work Rises

The proportion of social housing tenants in work has risen sharply over the last ten years.  In 2013/14, 37% of social housing tenants (1.43m households) were in employment up, from 31% (1.22m households) in 2003/04, the English Housing Survey has revealed. It is a rise from 34.6% who were in work in last year’s survey, accounting for 1.28m households.  During the same period, the proportion of those working and in receipt of housing benefits has also increased, from one in five to one in three. In 2013/14, 459,000 households, almost 12% of all social tenants, were working and on housing benefits, compared to just 6% (236,000 households) in 2003/04. Download the figures from the GovUK website.