Sentence examples for lists for council from inspiring English sources

I worry about the 350,000 families currently on waiting lists for council housing.

Rising house prices and long waiting lists for council properties mean local people are having difficulty finding an affordable home.

Yet although London's population was falling, waiting lists for council homes were lengthening and 15,000 London families were recognised as homeless.

For some, this represents a healthy development, one that will encourage a new social mixing in the renovated estate even as it squeezes out the poor onto ever-larger waiting lists for council housing.

The number of people on waiting lists for council housing stands at 1,240,855 in England, while in Scotland, 173,587 applicants are on local authority waiting lists, with demand in some areas far higher: there are 24,909 applicants in the city of Edinburgh.

The measure only affects tenants renting flats in the private sector, and not those living in council properties, but with waiting lists for council flats stretching into many years, large numbers of families who are on low incomes currently rely on housing benefit payments to subsidise or cover private rents.

Last year was the first time since 1983 that more social housing was built than sold.Still, an acute shortage remains: 1.7m households are on the waiting list for council housing, and 87,000 of them are in temporary accommodation, which is disruptive for families and expensive for councils.

More than 14,000 people are on Bristol City Council's waiting list for council accommodation.

The lack of housing supply in the city is also a concern; over 85,000 people were on the waiting list for council housing in Greater Manchester last year, according to figures from Shelter.

Today, Sarah has been on the city's list for council housing for six years, and last week she received a letter informing her she was number "1,000 and something" on the wait for housing in the Swords area, a satellite town on Dublin's northern outskirts.

You will be quite high priority on the list for council flats and they may sort you out some old baby clothes.