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There are growing signs of affordable housing shortages in the Dundee City area.

• In Dundee City there were 22,522 social rented sector homes in 2011-2012.
• Right to Buy resulted in the loss of 2,017 affordable homes between 2001-2002 and 2011-2012.
• In the last year 78 social sector properties have been lost through sale or demolition.
• There were 315 households living in temporary accommodation in December 2012, including 133 children.
• There were 1,252 households assessed as homeless in 2011-2012.
• The number of households on the council waiting list was 5,846 in March 2012, but only 1,023 new lets were available in 2011-12. This means that it would take over 5 years to clear the current waiting list.
• The total number of households on the main council housing list, which includes the transfer list, was 7,731 in March 2012.
  
• 43,000 properties in Dundee City currently fail the Scottish Housing Quality Standard.

Dundee City needs more affordable homes.