CLEARING social housing lists “would take 119 years” at the current building rate, new research found yesterday.Shelter chief executive Sarah Elliott warned “none of us alive today will live to see the end of the housing emergency” if the government continues to deliver homes at the current “snail’s pace.”The housing charity’s findings put the number of households on a waiting list for a social home at more than 1.3 million, but that only 12,198 were built by councils, housing associations or private developers last year in England.

CLEARING social housing lists “would take 119 years” at the current building rate, new research found yesterday.

Shelter chief executive Sarah Elliott warned “none of us alive today will live to see the end of the housing emergency” if the government continues to deliver homes at the current “snail’s pace.”

The housing charity’s findings put the number of households on a waiting list for a social home at more than 1.3 million, but that only 12,198 were built by councils, housing associations or private developers last year in England.

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