More households were on the Forest of Dean 's social housing wait list this year, new figures show.

Housing charity Shelter said people have been pushed into homeless as successive governments have "failed to build enough genuinely affordable social rent homes".

Figures from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government show there were 1,686 households on the Forest of Dean's housing register, meaning they were on the wait list for social housing, as of March 31.

It was a 3% increase from 1,638 in 2024.

Across England, over 1.3 million households were waiting on social housing at the end of March. It was up 1% on the year before, representing an increase of 9,833 households.

The MHCLG said this was the highest number of households on housing registers since 2014.

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