Simon Community has revealed the number of properties to rent for vulnerable people facing eviction is at its lowest ever as the housing crisis deepens.
It comes the day before an expected flood of evictions are initiated as the ban on evictions is set to lapse tomorrow. The charity’s Locked Out of the Market report checks how many properties there are for home seekers to rent at any one time.
The report for March shows there were only 672 properties to rent at any price within the 16 areas covered over the three dates surveyed. This was down 11%, or 85 properties, on the previous low of 757 homes identified in the last survey in December.
