Fewer households on social housing waiting list in Harborough
Fewer households were on Harborough’s social housing waiting list in the past year, according to Government figures.
As of March 31, there were 675 households on Harborough’s housing register, which meant they were on the waiting list for social housing.
This is a fall of three per cent from the 695 on the register in the previous year.
Nationally, more than 1.3 million households were waiting on social housing at the end of March, a rise of one per cent on the year before, and an increase of 9,833 households.
According to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government this is the highest on housing registers since 2014.
Of households that received social housing across the country during 2024-2025 56 per cent were on the register for less than a year.
Meanwhile, seven per cent were on the register for five years, while three per cent were on it for more than ten years.
Director of policy and campaigns at Shelter Mairi MacRae said: "The severe lack of social homes means that a safe and secure home is only a distant dream to the over 1.3 million households stuck on social housing waiting lists in England.
"For decades, successive governments have failed to build enough genuinely affordable social rent homes, all while rents have rocketed to levels families simply cannot afford.
"Thousands have been pushed into homelessness as a result, with some stuck in grotty B&Bs and mouldy hostels and others moved miles from their communities, jobs and schools.
"The only way to help families off waiting lists is for the government to build more social homes.
"It must set an overall national target for the delivery of social rent homes and ramp up to building 90,000 a year for ten years - enough to end homelessness for good."
In response, a Government spokesperson said: "We've inherited years of failure to build enough social homes that has left too many people stuck on housing waiting lists.
"We're taking urgent action to address this by delivering the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation, backed by a £39 billion investment, and sweeping measures stripping away barriers for councils to build at a scale not seen in years."