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Data trends extracted from CIPFA’s Housing 360 show that, on average, there were over 1.2 million households on council waiting lists nationally between 2013 and 2018. It also showed that over the same period, the number of council-owned homes reduced by around 84,000, a reduction of nearly five per cent in England alone.
The biggest loss of council housing has been in family-sized two and three bedroom properties. These properties also experienced the greatest growth in demand, indicating this is area of supply where there is a particular shortage unless future development is planned in line with need.
Rob Whiteman, CIPFA CEO, said: “The extent of the UK’s housing crisis has been a known issue for quite some time, with government targets in place to build 300,000 new homes per year. However, with many developers putting projects on hold as a result of the ongoing pandemic, this ambition will become increasingly more difficult to realise. CIPFA’s new Housing 360 toolkit provides councils with both the reflective and predictive data models needed to plan for the medium to long-term as the full impact of coronavirus on the sector becomes apparent.”
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