Housing 2000 to 2020 in England - The FACTS the usual experts don't want you to know

In 2020 there were just 31,000 more social housing properties than in the year 2000. In 2020 there were 2,406,000 more private rented properties than in the year 2000.

These figures (for England only) reveal: 

For every 1 new net social rented sector properties built there were 78 private rented sector properties built over the 20-year period

This is a WTF statement and fact.  The figures are from the English Housing Survey and they also mirror the Census 2021 official data making these facts irrefutable and non-moot.

I used this simple line chart and table of official data last week as part of a long and detailed paper that the social rented sector (SRS) does not ‘do’ fact, indeed consciously avoids it and is a FACT FREE ZONE with its leaders and lobbies choosing to rely on myth and shibboleth.

The SRS propaganda machine tells us daily and this week the SRS myth and delusion is in overdrive due to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.  One example of scores of similar specious and false claims is below and this from the largest housing association in England

Housing association at the heart of delivering homes you say?

• The 31,000 increase in SRS properties over this 20 year period equates to less than 1 new property per social landlord PER YEAR
• From 2000 to 2020 the size of the social rented sector increased by 0.8% whereas the size of the private rented sector increased by 119%. 
•  The population of England grew by > 7 million in this time (49.2m – 56.5m) ONS 

As a fellow Liverpudlian or anyone would respond when we look at facts and not myth:

The overall point in my fact-heavy and detailed theme of social housing being a FACT FREE ZONE is that by the ‘great and the good’ of the SRS continue to choose not to look at fact, and largely because fact makes mockery of the SRS propaganda, the social rented sector and its lobbies fail to diagnose or scope the problem and in doing so assert ‘solutions’ that sound and read good yet can never work.  The upshot is the never-defined Housing Crisis gets worse by the day.