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Summary

The latest statistics provided by local authorities in England on their Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix (HSSA) and Business Plan Statistical Appendix (BPSA) for 2007/08 were released on Thursday 22 January 2009.

Topics in this release include: local authority housing stock; households on local authority housing waiting lists; participation of local authorities in Choice Based Letting (CBL) schemes; local authority lettings; decent homes delivery; and programme of work on Housing Revenue Account (HRA) stock.

Key points from the release are:

• Local authorities in England owned 1.87 million dwellings on 1 April 2008, following a general decline from 3.18 million on 1 April 1999.
• There were 1.77 million households on local authority housing waiting lists across England on 1 April 2008, an increase from 1.67 million on 1 April 2007.
• 47 per cent of local authorities in England participated in Choice-Based Lettings (CBL) on 1 April 2008, an increase from 36 per cent on 1 April 2007.
• Local authority landlords in England made 157,800 lettings during 2007/08, following a general decline from 378,900 in 1998-99.
• The number of non-decent local authority dwellings across England was 489,400 on 1April 2008, a fall from 617,600 on 1 April 2007.

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• Local Authority Housing Statistics, England: 2007/08: HSSA & BPSA
  PDF, 255 kb , 22 pages
• Local Authority Housing Statistics, England: 2007/08: HSSA & BPSA
  MS Word, 279 kb , 22 pages
• Table 116: Local authority stock, by district, from 1994
  MS Excel, 128 kb
• Table 119: Stock of non-decent homes in the Social Rented Sector, England
  MS Excel, 32 kb
• Table 313: Number and amount of total renewal grants paid under the 1996 Act, by region
  MS Excel, 33 kb
• Table 314: Number and amount of disabled facilities grants paid under the 1996 Act, by region
  MS Excel, 24 kb
• Pre-release Access list: Local Authority Housing Statistics
  MS Excel, 14 kb
• Table 600: Numbers of households on local authorities' housing waiting lists, by district, from 1997
  MS Excel, 132 kb
• Table 601: Local authority lettings, by region, from 1988/89
  MS Excel, 77 kb
• Table 611: Local authority vacant dwellings, by region, from 1989
  MS Excel, 36 kb
• Chart 612: Local authority vacant dwellings
  MS Excel, 39 kb

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