More than 8,000 households are waiting for a council home in Nottingham, city council bosses have revealed as they laid bare the extent of the social housing crisis. Nottingham City Council is only able to provide between 1,400 to 1,600 properties a year, and said a further 6,000 households were annually presenting as homeless.
Nottingham City Homes (NCH), one of the leading providers of affordable housing in the city, said the majority of people waiting were families, and was only able to provide a few hundred a year itself. Discussing the challenges, Toby Neal, portfolio holder for housing at the city council, said Nottingham faced some "very specific challenges".
"There are about 8,000 households on the waiting list, it's a lot, it's a great deal and we can probably provide through council housing about 1,400 to 1,600 a year so it still leaves a lot of people in need of housing," he told Nottinghamshire Live. "I don't think anyone can sit back and say 'yeah it's going great', the challenges are the money, right to buy doesn't allow for replacements.
