Social Housing Squeeze will cost UK economy £2.5 billion over 5 years

The barriers faced by social housing tenants wanting to move home are costing the UK's economy at least £542 million each year .This will amount to more than £2.5 billion over the course of this Parliament - according to 'Counting Costs'; a major new report released by Circle Anglia. Circle Anglia runs the UK's only not for profit, national mutual exchange service - www.houseexchange.org - that helps thousands of social housing tenants move home. In this video, Mike Ward from Circle Anglia shares the full extent of the problem and explains how a national exchange system would work and hear from a House Exchange user who found a new home in just six weeks.

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• social housing
• House Exchange
• Circle Anglia
• affordable housing
• mutual exchange