Overcrowding In Social Housing Hits 24-Year High

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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