Housing Register
Case reference FOI2022/00122
Published 28 February 2022
Request
Q1. How many individuals and families are on your register for housing?
Q2. How long have you maintained a register? From which year?
Q3. Snapshot of reported totals; Per Annum from first year of registering individuals and families
Q4. Size of housing stock
Q5. Size of housing stock; Per Annum from first year of registering individuals and families
Q6. Number of individuals and families considered and/or registered as homeless - Per Annum, from first year of registrations to date.
Response
Q1. 692 individuals and 675 families.
Q2. For 20 years, from 2002.
Q3. Data from 2002 - 2013 is not available due to the 7 year retention schedule in line with Data Protection Act guidelines. Please see below data from 2014 for individuals:
2014 - 188 (2014 policy upgrade)
2015 - 599
2016 - 613
2017 - 538
2018 - 520
2019 - 514
2020 - 853 (2020 policy upgrade)
2021 - 1119
Please see below data for Families:
2014 - 162 (2014 policy upgrade)
2015 - 429
2016 - 469
2017 - 426
2018 - 406
2019 - 413
2020 - 412 (2020 policy upgrade)
2021 - 494
Q4. 0 - Herefordshire Council completed a large scale voluntary transfer (LSVT) of all housing stock in 2002
Q5. As per Question 4.
Q6. Data from 2002 - 2013 is not available due to the 7 year retention schedule in line with Data Protection Act guidelines. Please see below data from 2014 for individuals:
2014 - 15 (2014 policy upgrade)
2015 - 11
2016 - 10
2017 - 6 (Homelessness Reduction Act)
2018 - 14
2019 - 18
2020 - 37 (2020 policy upgrade)
2021 - 74
Please see below data for Families:
2014 - 18 (2014 policy upgrade)
2015 - 33
2016 - 17
2017 - 17 (Homelessness Reduction Act)
2018 - 27
2019 - 40
2020 - 37 (2020 policy upgrade)
2021 - 78
Documents
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