Discover more about the reality of homelessness in Stockport.
Stockport is “the best place to live in the Northwest” according to The Sunday Times, but behind the headlines, homelessness is rising.
Pressures are at an all-time high across Stockport and with 6,500 people on the housing register and up to 600 applications for each available property, many people will never be able to access housing.
On top of this, average house prices in Stockport exceed £300,000, there is currently the lowest ever turnover of social housing tenancies and there is a 66% fall in available private rented accommodation.
All of this points to deep-seated structural issues within the housing market which are unlikely to improve anytime soon.
It’s difficult to quantify the exact number of homeless people in Stockport and across the UK due to the various definitions and ways of capturing homelessness data.
On average, researchers believe around 1 in every 182 people in the UK is homeless.
Next time you’re at the office or at a companywide meeting, know that statistically there is likely at least one person in that room at risk of or experiencing homelessness. It could happen to any of us.