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6 days agoLondon families wait 18 years for council home as Government tells Sadiq Khan: 'Build, baby, build!'
Families are waiting an average of 18 years for a council home in an east London borough, an MP has revealed. It is the latest indication of the collapse in the supply of social housing in the capital that has left an estimated 330,000 households stranded on local authority waiting lists. Calvin Bailey, the Labour MP for Leyton and Wanstead, told a debate in Parliament that 7,300 applicants were on the waiting list in his constituency.
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