Of the 500,000 privately renting households on council waiting lists last year - just 43,000 families were actually housed, Shelter said. And worryingly, the true scale of need among private renters is probably far greater than these figures suggest. It's a problem linked to decades of failed Government promises to build new social homes, Shelter said. Just 6,434 social rent homes were delivered last year, but 21,500 were lost through sales, conversions and demolitions. (Image: Getty Images)Consequently, people have become effectively trapped in expensive private renting.

Source: Daily Mirror November 05, 2019 04:52 UTC