FOI request (FOIR-720912925)

Social housing stock and rent arrears

Requested Fri 06 June 2025
Responded Tue 10 June 2025

Under the Freedom of Information Act, can you please tell me the following information from Hastings Borough Council:

1. How many units of social housing stock do you currently have?

2. How many units of social housing stock did you own in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025?

3. How many of these social housing units are currently in rental arrears?

4. How many of these social housing units were in rental arrears in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025?

5. What is the total value of these rental arrears?

6. What was the total value of these rental arrears in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025?

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Response

Hastings Borough Council holds no information in respect of this request.

Hastings Borough Council does not own any housing stock. It was sold in 1996 to the then 1066 Housing Association as part of a Large Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT).