An analysis of the National Housing Federation found that families waiting for properties with three or more rooms in Westminster, Enfield or Merton, would have to wait more than 100 years to get a house, assuming that no one new joined the list or her.
Westminster headed the national table with an estimated 107 years required to eliminate the waiting list of family size houses, while Enfield was estimated at 105 years, and Merton at 102 years.
The shortest wait in the first ten (listed below) was more than 40 years, with Wandworth and Camden in rooms and fifth places with arrears of more than 80 years.
However, the average estimate in London was much lower, at 27, and the average in England, including London, was seven years.
Kate Henderson, the NHF executive director, said: “The fact that families in so many parts of the country in front of waiting lists for an affordable home than all childhood of their children is a national scandal.
“Safety, stability and space to learn and play are vital for the development of a child, however, we are allowing the sinks of thousands of children to grow in harmful temporary houses, in narrow and poor quality conditions with little privacy. This is this dirty. This is this growth. This is this dirty and dirty growth. It deserves better.”
The NHF data occurs after the local democracy report service revealed in January that the total number of households in the waiting lists for social homes in London last year reached the highest level for more than a decade. A total of 336,366 households waited for the home in the capital as or April 1, 2024.
In a joint message with the crisis and the refuge of charity organizations, the NHF has asked Foreign Minister Rachel Reeves to put a great investment in social homes in its review of expenses in June.
“Every day, our first -line services listen to desperate parents forced to impossible situations,” said Shylter’s policy director and campaigns. “Families got into a single -room temporary accommodation, without any place for children to play or do the task.
“The key workers uprooted their works and communities because there are simply no homes that can pay nearby. Childhood is to be homeless and is costing thousands of millions to the country.
“The review of the June spending is the government’s opportunity to correct this wrong. By committing to a serious investment in social homes, building 90,000 social homes a year for a decade, we can put an end to the emergency of housing, save advertising money need the world that all Nevaryd’s Neververy’s Neveryd’s Neveryd’s Neveryd.” ”
A spokesman for the London councils, the local government association of the capital, said in response to the NHF investigation: “The growing number of Londoners caught in the waiting lists for social homes is evidence of the housing of the capital and the lack of housing.
“With one in 50 homeless Londoners, the districts are doing everything possible to build the affordable houses for which our communities are crying. However, we are also fighting with huge structures of resources and immense challenges for housing delivery.
“The districts are determined to change the situation. We are firmly a pro -forest growth and commit ourselves to work with the government to boost the construction of housing in the capital. Increased and sustained long -term investment in affordable homes is key to do.”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government replied: “The results of this report highlight the scale and devastating impact of the social housing crisis that we have inherited.
“We are taking urgent measures to solve this through the plan for change, injecting £ 2 billion to help offer the greatest impulse in the construction of social and affordable housing in a generation, invest in a homeless service and present the rights are the social homes of the reform of the review beer in form.”
Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook also pointed out in response to a recent written question about the subject: “The number of homes in the housing record (waiting list) is not the same as the number of households they expect.
“Local authorities periodically review their records to eliminate households that no longer require homes, so the total number of homes in housing records can exaggerate the number of households that still required homes in No.”
The ‘best’ local NHF authorities in England, in terms of estimated time to eliminate the waiting list for a house with three rooms or more, is as follows:
Westminster – 106.7
Enfield – 105.3
Merton – 102.4
Wandworth – 82.0
Camden – 81.8
Mansfield – 75.5
Slough – 74.3
Redbridge – 74.3
Greenwich – 67.1
Newham – 42.5
