20 June 2022
Your request & our response
Of the people currently on the council's waiting list for social housing, I would like you to provide me with the longest wait time (in years and months) for council housing - i.e. the length of time that the person who has been on the list the longest has waited.
46 years, and note that Lambeth operates a choice based lettings scheme as opposed to a direct offer scheme meaning that households on the waiting list choose to bid as often as they wish, or not at all.
In addition to this, I would like you to provide me with an up-to-date figure of the number of people currently on the waiting list.
38,999 households (not people) are on the Housing Waiting List as of 24/05/2022.
Of these people, I would like you to tell me
- the sum of people who have been on the list for two years or longer,
8,563 households
- the sum of people who have been on the list for five years or longer,
13,537 households
- and the sum of people who have been on the list for ten years or longer.
9,089 households