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Nearly 3 million people in overcrowded housing by 2011

15/04/2023

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AJ Williamson

The number of people living in overcrowded homes in England will soar 15 per cent to 2.6 million by 2011 as unemployment and repossessions bite, the National Housing Federation warned today. It says an extra 350,000 people would be living in overcrowded conditions in the next two years, exacerbated by the economic slowdown which has left as few as 70,000 new homes being built this year - down from 140,000 in 2008/09. Regionally, the most severe living conditions are in London, where 6.6 per cent of all homes are officially classified as overcrowded.

Tags: London, recession, house market, credit crisis, housing management, overcrowding, national housing federation, house shortage, regions

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What are the criteria for housing to be classed as overcrowded?

Posted by Kat Austen on Wednesday 15 2009 at 12:37 PM

The official definition says couples, single adults over 21, a pair of same sex adolescents aged 10 to 20 or a pair of children under 10 should all have a room to themselves. That is what is known as the ‘bedroom standard’. Households that fall a room short of that standard (where, for example, three children under 10 are forced to share)are defined as overcrowded. Households two or more rooms short of the standard are officially classed as ‘severely overcrowded’.

Posted by Tony Marshall on Thursday 16 2009 at 12:03 PM

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