Islanders on the Isle of Wight’s housing register, and homeless households in temporary or emergency accommodation, continue to climb on the Isle of Wight, new stats reveal.
An adult social care, public health and housing needs committee report released in March says greater numbers of people are waiting to access social housing compared to the same period in previous years.
The paper, published ahead of a meeting on 25th June, states that the ability to reduce the number on the register is ‘constrained’ by the lack of affordable rented accommodation from Registered Providers.
The Island HomeFinder system, the Isle of Wight’s housing register, provides data relating to the needs of local households that are looking for affordable housing.
Registered Providers (RPs) are the key providers of affordable rented homes for Islanders.
The number of households prevented from being homeless is also on the up. A range of activities is undertaken with those facing homelessness and their landlords in an attempt for them to remain in their homes, according to the committee report.
This financial year, there was access to targeted grant funding, which adds further capacity for homelessness prevention.
The latest housing needs figures released show the number of people on the housing register: 2,656 (2,593 same month last year), the number of rough sleepers: six (four same month last year) and the number of households prevented from being homeless (cumulative): 356 (322 same month last year).
Stop building luxury homes and build social housing only.
Job done.
Why not both?
What is the “housing register”?
People that are here on the Island? People that want to move here but are on other councils lists? Where are they living while they are on the list? Need more information to be properly informed.
We are all equal so what does it matter
shouldn’t be any favouritsm because one is
born on the island.
Life is different thesedays, it worked that way years ago.
It is now 2026 not 1966
yes there should – illegals turning up on boats and then sent to the island dont deserve anything – they arent welcome here
The housing register is for bums who do not and will not work. We should have a giant hall where they all live in office dividers to keep costs down. If they want more they have to work for it.
scrap all benefits. If you don’t work for it you can’t have it
That has got to be the most insulting comment you have ever made!
so,people that work but cannot afford a mortgage,are bums
people that have trouble affording high private rents,are bums
they go on the social housing register in the hope they get a house,or flat at a lower rent,are bums,
you need to be blocked,shown your true colours there,utter arrogance,and no idea what the homefinder site is about.
you really are an utter scumbag.
Wow a turnip on legs!how do you type without a brain?we should have a giant hall where idiots are pointed at and laughed about.what an absolute goon.
What a ridiculous thing to say, I work with people who rent in social Housing, you can rely on them, honest and hard-working, not a biased idiot like you
Google it!
it can be a number of things.people who are being ripped off and are paying way too much rent.people living with black mould or other problems causing health issues.people no longer able to climb stairs to the flat they live in.people in emergency accommodation,I.e a father and daughter or a family given 1 room to live in because there is nothing else available.people sofa surfing to avoid homelessness.people sleeping on the streets.there are 20-30 people applying for every flat that is advertised and its been like this for over a year.and that is the people who meet the estate agents requirements.you cant get a flat from the county press or newsagents notice boards which link you directly to a landlord any more.you need to at least have a good credit rating,references from previous landlords and a minimum of £1300 for a single flat,£1600 for double.but for 75% of flats out there you need a guarantor which is not something a lot of people have-someone to say they will pay the rent if you dont.if you dont have these there is openrent,but they only get a flat or 2 every 2 months,or wightbay which have much less.
Some facts just aren’t made readily available,like who the social housing places are actually being given to because there have been 2-6,2 bedroom properties being allocated every week for the last 5 years but my daughter and i weren’t offered any while my chest got worse and worse from black mould and other housing related issues.i have been on homefinder for 18 years but have never been offered anything.
There is no such thing as affordable housing, and why has it got to be Isle of Wight? Enough of our green fields carved up as it is, and the more free houses get given away here, the more crime goes up with low life and feral brats, and the possibility of more serious flooding and more stress on services that are already struggling to cope.
We have been on the housing register for 18yrs and and the highest position in the biding we have ever got is 54
Nowdays housing is given to others, times have changed.
Well,according to the idiot that is enough is enough,you are bums!
The loop hole that estate agents are using is. If people are not earning £24k+ a year you have no chance. It’s discrimination and they are still discriminating those on low income. They should be brought to task over this!
The plan is people will own nothing and be happy.
Get rid of all the foreigners ….stop letting any riffraff move here ….problem sorted
Most riff raff as you say are already here,
and from what I have seen they are not foreign.
You are obviously another Reformer suffering
from being R acist, so sad, there is no place in the
world for r acists.
Amen
If any co-housing group on the Island would like our nites, valuation of a site, preliminary architect consultations and finance work-uo contact me to meet up.
It doesn’t allow me to reply directly to Buddah who wants ALL FOREIGNERS gone, so I am posting this as a new comment:
I’m a foreigner and I go to work every day. I pay taxes and I never claimed benefits. I wouldn’t even know where and how to claim benefits. I haven’t even taken a single sick day in over 5 years, and you really think people like me are the problem?
Most foreigners (as you like to call us) are NOT riffraff. Whenever I have the “pleasure” of rubbing shoulders with the actual local riffraff, they are home-grown Reform voters, like you.
I make good money, and the tax I pay feeds the real riffraff, the unempoyables who have nothing better to do than sit at home all day, rage at the tv about “foreigners”, smoke and drink, maybe whine about the state of the NHS too…
My partner and I, we work hard, we are skilled, and if we were to leave the island, neither of our jobs could just be filled with a random local. My job would no longer exist here; it would go to someone on the mainland. My partner’s role would be replaced with another skilled person who’d move here from the mainland because the lack of skilled workers in my partner’s field of work is the reason we’re here in the first place.
You whine about a lack of dentists and doctors, but you’re not very inviting. Most dentists on this island are from Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, South Africa and so on. You think they should leave because they are foreigners? They’re fixing the rotten teeth of the unemployable Reform voters all day, every day. What about all the nurses and doctors from abroad? Should they be arrested and deported? What about people with other skills such as engineering, legal, financial, etc?
Please do have some respect for the many foreigners who actually go to work and pay taxes, and who contribute a lot more than the average Reform voter.