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Housing Executive Houses

Volume 456: debated on Wednesday 31 January 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many Housing Executive houses in Northern Ireland are unoccupied; and how many of those houses are located in (a) West Belfast, (b) South Belfast, (c) North Belfast and (d) East Belfast. (111667)

There are currently 3,779 Housing Executive properties unoccupied and of those the distribution for Belfast showing the reason for not being occupied are as follows:

Belfast

Awaiting imminent relet

Difficult to let

Undergoing major repairs imp’s/decanting

Pending sale or demolition

Total

(a) West

(district 1)

1

8

37

0

46

(district 3)

0

0

16

2

18

(district 5)

0

24

81

32

137

Total

1

32

134

34

201

(b) South

(district 7)

1

1

49

2

53

(c) North

(district 4)

2

88

122

135

347

(district 6)

12

49

33

128

222

Total

14

137

155

263

569

(d) East

(district 2)

0

0

65

36

101

The districts in brackets relate to the Housing Executive Offices that cover each of the four areas of Belfast referred to in the question.