Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this: In the Guardian today, the above and: The wait for family-size social housing has risen to more than 100 years in parts of England, which charities have condemned as “ludicrous” and a “national scandal”. Analysis from the National Housing Federation (NHF), Crisis and Shelter found that in 32 local authority areas across England, the wait for a home with at least three bedrooms was longer than 18 years – the duration of an entire childhood. The worst three councils, all of which are in London, have waiting lists exceeding 100 … Continue reading As families face up to one hundred year waits for social housing in England, Miles Briggs (Con) reveals it’s ‘longer than a year’ in Scotland