PEOPLE refusing certain offers for social housing could soon be completely removed from Bristol’s ever-growing waiting list.
Almost 18,000 households are currently on the waiting list for social housing in Bristol, and the list is growing rapidly as rents in the city become increasingly unaffordable. Now Bristol City Council is consulting the public on a major shake-up of how it allocates social housing.
One option to cut the number of people on the housing waiting list, now under consultation, is by drastically restricting who is eligible to apply for social housing. Another option is penalising anybody who rejects an offer of a new home, by taking them off the list. The council has launched a survey, revealing its proposed steps for a social housing shake-up.
