More Than A Million On Social Housing Waiting Lists

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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