Some better news for those on the housing waiting list in York

Mean waiting times on the waiting list for those seeking to rent one and two bedroomed properties reduced last year.

In 2015/2016 the median waiting time for a property from the housing waiting list was 259 days

Last year (2016/2017) this had fallen to 222 days

Waiting times for 3 bedroomed properties increased.

Listed below by year are the median waiting times for a property by assessed bed need

 2015/16 2016/17

· 1-bed home

 277 162

· 2-bed home

 255

237

· 3-bed home

 226

371
· 4-bed home 321

326

By the end of April 2017 the numbers on the waiting list in York for different sizes of property were

  • 1038 applications for a 1 bedroom
  • 642 applications with a 2 bed need
  • 200 applications with a 3 bed need
  • 45 applications with a 4 bed need
  • 5 applications with a 5 bed need

Applicants seeking to rent properties from social landlords in the City should visit the following web site. https://www.northyorkshirehomechoice.org.uk/

What’s on in York: The Rescuers

 

City Screen Picturehouse :

Fri 11 Aug :

11.00am – 1.00pm :

£3

Aug _11RescuersBased on the Margery Sharp series of novels, the first of which was released in 1959 and titled The Rescuers.

A little girl named Penny has been enslaved by the creepy Madame Medusa and sent into the dangerous seaside caves of the swamp to search for a lost pirate’s gem called the Devil’s Eye. When Penny is able to send a message in a bottle, the Rescue Aid Society springs into action and dispatches one of their top members Ms. Bianca and their caretaker Bernard on a rescue mission. With the help of an albatross named Orville and the local swamp dwellers, Ms. Bianca and Bernard must pull off an impossible rescue…

Tickets booked through City Screen Picturehouse, York

Box Office Number: 0871 902 5726 (Calls cost 13p per minute plus your telephone company’s access charge) or cityscreenyork@picturehouses.co.uk