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Bristol Housing Crisis
Bristol Housing Crisis
Dawn Primarolo MP
Labour, Bristol South
19 January 2015
For immediate release
In the three months April-Jun 2012, 66 new households were accepted as homeless by Bristol
City Council, in the three months July-Sep 2014 the figure was 221.
The detailed figures can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness
Responding to an FOI Request Bristol City Council indicted that, since 2010, 319 homes had
been sold under Right to Buy and further 75 homes as uneconomic.