Analysis and action on living standards
Governments and politicians can have a big effect on housing, for good and for ill. In this basket of indicators we track new housing supply; housing stock relative to the number of families; housing benefit coverage; and Help to Buy sales – all key issues in current housing policy debates.
The total number of dwellings per thousand families in an area is another important metric of housing stock and supply across different areas of the UK. This has important implications for house prices, and trends in investment in housing across the regions.
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Averaged over two years, e.g. 2017-18 is average of estimates for stock and family units in 2017 and 2018. GB until 2006/7, UK after.
RF analysis of MHCLG, Live tables on dwelling stock (including vacants); Scottish Government, Stock by tenure; StatsWales, Dwelling stock estimates by year and tenure; Department of Finance Northern Ireland, Annual Housing Stock Statistics; ONS, Quarterly Labour Force Survey
