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Total households on the housing waiting list at 31st March (105) Metric type
- Help text
- This is the total households on the housing waiting list at 31st March.
Local authorities are expected to keep a waiting list of housing applicants in order to deliver their statutory allocation functions.
The housing waiting list includes both households in housing need and those not in housing need. However, this should exclude existing local authority tenants seeking a transfer within the authority's own stock.
The Homelessness Act 2002 removed the statutory duty to maintain a Housing Register as of 31 January 2003. However, we expect local authorities will need to keep a waiting list of housing applicants in order to deliver their statutory allocation functions.
Authorities who have transferred all of their stock (e.g. through Large Stock Value Transfer (LSVT)) should provide figures, irrespective of who is now responsible for managing the waiting list.
This indicator is from the Local Authority Housing Statistics data returns (LAHS) Section C - Allocations
- Modified
- 28 Jan 2022
- Data last updated
- 15 Feb 2024
- Short label
- Total households on housing waiting list at 31 March
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Count
- Dataset
- Total households on the housing waiting list at 1st April
- Source
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
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