Professor John Robertson OBA
Thanks, once more, to Dottie for alerting us to this:
In the Guardian yesterday:
According to the housing charity Shelter, in the 12 months leading up to March 2025, Liverpool city council received 2,048 applications for homelessness support, a 25% increase on the previous year. The most recent data shows 12,764 households on the city’s social housing waiting list. But one figure is particularly shocking: reflecting the fact that most local authorities now lack either the means or will to build anything more than paltry amounts of new social housing, the city’s “additional social rent dwellings” in 2023-24 totalled – and read this slowly –FIVE.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/19/britain-housing-crisis-social-rent-liverpool
Glasgow City has 110 000 social rented homes compared to 12 764 in Liverpool.
https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/12942/Social-housing
In 2023/2024, Glasgow City Council completed 558 new social rent homes, down from the average of 760 per year between 2018 and 2023, compared to only 5 in Liverpool.
https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/10245/Housing-Emergency
Liverpool’s population is 510 000 compared to Glasgow’s 622 000, only one quarter larger, yet Glasgow has 9 times as many and built more than 100 times as many, social rent homes in 2023/2024
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Based on the 2021 Census, Liverpool had 216,400 households. Here’s the breakdown of housing tenure in absolute numbers:
🏠 Liverpool Housing Tenure – 2021 Census
Tenure Type Percentage Approximate Number of Households
Owned outright 23.4% ~50,600
Owned with mortgage/loan 24.1% ~52,100
Rented from council 10.6% ~22,900
Rented from housing association 17.9% ~38,700
Private rented 20.1% ~43,500
Shared ownership 0.5% ~1,100
Rent-free 3.4% ~7,400
Total social rented (Council + Housing Association): ~61,600 households
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