Housing Associations in the city held about 64,500 applications on registers according to information collected by theThe number is equivalent to “10 applicants waiting on housing registers for every home let during the previous 12 months,” the council’s draft local housing strategy said.The strategy for 2023 to 2028 aims to build 6,500 affordable new homes over the next five years.
Asking how officials had come up with the numbers, he said: “There is a big disparity between the number of applicants we have for social housing” “compared to what we are trying to build to address that.” An official said: “We have looked at the pressures with homelessness, pressures with Ukrainian households coming into the city and what we know of what is deliverable in terms of the affordable housing grant that we get for the city. We have come up with a target through that, which will go someway towards meeting the housing need in the city. We are keen to invest as much as possible in terms of meeting housing need in the city.