New rental homes only solution to social housing shortage – Action for Housing
Photo by Johnny Bugeja
16th April 2021
Building new rental flats is the only way to address Gibraltar’s “serious housing shortage”, campaign group Action for Housing said on Thursday, stressing demand for social housing remained much higher than supply.
The campaign group earlier this week with GBC highlighted the case of Khalil Lyaacoubi, an applicant on the medical housing list who lives in substandard conditions but has yet to be allocated a house.
After the case was highlighted, Housing Minister Steven Linares said the government had allocated 176 properties last year including 61 to medical and social cases, adding that there were multiple complex issues that impacted on how quickly others on the list could be assigned new houses.