Karen that is quite possible. It is only in the last few years that we have been building lots of smaller units of accommodation to help address the under occupancy issues and of course some people will have a preference of where they want to go, some for example will not want to move out of their parish, which can increase considerably the waiting time. Also people on the transfer list are at least adequately housed and we do have to concentrate getting those on the waiting list into social housing first. I fully accept that the situation has not been ideal for many years and I have to say very little was done for decades to address the building of new homes or helping those who were/are under occupying. Rodley Park was the last major development of that sort. Things will continue to improve as we bring more and more properties on stream, the whole process did stagnate for a while as we had to re-house hundreds of tenants whose homes were being demolished so the transfer and waiting lists did suffer as a result and for that I hold my hands up. Having said that my board and our staff are not magicians and we have to try and achieve a balance but we have made huge improvements and as I say, as more new developments are finished it will help ease the situation further.
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