Life in the Greater Manchester town with a TWELVE year housing wait
manchestereveningnews.co.ukStockport hit a grim milestone this week. The borough's housing register has now grown so big that it will take 12 years to find homes for everyone waiting, council officials have said.
That means at least some of the 8,000 people who have put their name down for social housing in the borough will be left waiting until 2036 before they are offered a place to live.
And the 8,000 figure could be be much higher, as it only accounts for individuals not including any family members they may live with. READ MORE: Bid to turn Stockport Pyramid into a huge curry house set to take huge step forward Stockport Labour Party leader Cllr David Meller believes there could be as many as 16,000 people on the housing register in total.
Meanwhile, a report from the company managing the council's properties said that many people looking for social housing are currently living in overcrowded conditions, crammed into homes which are too small, a situation the council's housing lead described as "dire." Lucy Canavan is one of the Stockport residents who has been on the housing register for nearly a decade.
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