The Guardian Politics7 Jun 2026
Social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear at current building rate’
Research shows generations of children in England will grow up homeless unless government addresses council housing debt, charity says It would take more than a century to clear the social housing waiting lists in England at the government’s current speed of delivering new social homes, research by Shelter has shown. The housing charity found that more than 1.3m households are on a waiting list for a social home, but only 12,198 were built by councils, housing associations or private developers
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