Folkestone & Hythe Housing Register: The Five-Bedroom “Ghost Queue” Trapping 11 Families

Folkestone & Hythe Housing Register: The Five-Bedroom “Ghost Queue” Trapping 11 Families

This is a Guest Post On the Folkestone & Hythe District Council housing register there is a category that, on paper, looks normal. In practice it behaves like a dead end. There are 11 households currently waiting for a five-bedroom social home in this district. I am one of them. The Council’s own figures show that, in the last year, the number of five-bedroom properties allocated was zero. The “average waiting time” is not even recorded as a num…