South Lakeland District Housing Waiting List

EDM number 1230 in 2009-10, proposed by Timothy Farron on 06/04/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Social rented housing and Empty property.

That this House notes that South Lakeland District Council's figures show that there are 1,000 empty properties in the district; further notes that Shelter's figures show that there are 3,325 households in the district on the housing waiting list; and believes that rules should be changed to allow authorities such as South Lakeland to raise capital against the value of their housing stock to unlock the resources they would need to ensure that empty properties are brought into use as affordable homes for local families in housing need.

This motion has been signed by a total of 2 MPs.