In the Guardian today:

Social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear at current building rate’ Research shows generations of children in England will grow up homeless unless government addresses council housing debt, charity says

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/07/social-housing-119-years-waitlist-current-building-rate

Also in the Guardian, in October last year:

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