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More than 10,000 on the waiting list for council house

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Vincent
Published date10 August 2022
Figures from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities show 10,715 households were waiting for a council house in Leicestershire as of March 31. This is down 13 per cent on the previous year (12,432) and down 38 per cent on 2011 (17,534)

However, the Local Government Association has warned that one in 10 households wait more than five years due to a "chronic shortage of affordable housing" and predicts waitlists could have doubled as COVID assistance schemes wind down.

Of those on the waitlist, 68 per cent had reasonable preference, which gives them priority based on factors such as homelessness, poor living conditions or health requirements. There were 1,618 homeless households, down 11 per cent from the 1,822 waiting in 2020, and 704 households owed a duty by authority waiting for a property, up 143 per cent from 289 in 2020.

Homeless people owed a duty by authority are considered unintentionally homeless and include care leavers or victims of domestic abuse. There may be some overlap between the two homeless categories.

There were also 3,860 households waiting for a property due to living in unsanitary or overcrowded conditions, up 17 per cent from 3,274, and 1,496 households were waiting for a property due to medical, welfare or disability needs, up 46 per cent from 1,018 in 2020.

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