Under Bristol’s ‘One City’ approach, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UBHW) partnered with Bristol City Council (BCC) to provide 18 flats for use as Temporary Accommodation.

We need to build 90,000 social rent homes a year in England to address the chronic shortage across the country and alleviate decades of undersupply. Instead, in 2021/22 the new homes built were outpaced by the demolition and sale of social housing stock . In effect, we’ve turned the tap of social rent homes down to a trickle, having also taken out the plug. This has led to a structural deficit in UK social rent housing.