Sentences with phrase «shortage of council housing»
The borough — Tower Hamlets — has a severe shortage of council housing, with 22,500 people on waiting lists for accommodation and thousands more families living in cramped, overcrowded conditions.
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None of them will do anything to tackle the massive shortage of council houses, indeed some may well make it worse, and none will address the rising cost of private rent.
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Waltham Forest Council says they are forced to house people outside of the capital because shifts in the housing market and changes to benefits have led to an acute shortage of available properties.
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Project Selected By Governor's North Country Regional Economic Development Council; Will Create Hundreds of Jobs and Help Alleviate Housing Shortage in Watertown Area
The Labour leader was right, for example, to emphasise the need to boost research and development, improve skill levels and invest in transport while his pledge to allow councils to borrow to build more homes would help unlock more of the funding they need to address housing shortages.
However, as the court said, the «council can not be blamed for insisting on the rules... where there is an acute shortage of social housing».