Homeswap was the name given to a scheme for social housing tenants who transfer from one local authority or housing association property to another, across local authority boundaries, by advertising their existing property for an exchange with a similar tenant wishing to move in the opposite direction. We do not collect data on Homeswap specifically, but do routinely collect data on mutual exchanges which include those formally arranged through the Homeswap scheme as well as any other exchanges within the local authority. Information is available on number of dwellings rather than social housing tenants. Dwellings let through mutual exchanges within the local authority are shown for the last five years in (a) each English region and (b) each London local authority in the table.
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 North East 1,638 1,525 1,343 1,396 1,272 North West 1,627 1,135 1,082 1,101 972 Yorkshire and the Humber 1,546 1,406 1,570 1,860 1,495 East Midlands 2,478 1,668 1,468 1,556 1,463 West Midlands 2,479 2,305 1,869 1,578 1,548 East of England 3,195 2,707 2,444 2,248 2,207 London 2,811 3,202 2,522 2,299 2,243 South East 2,768 2,393 2,241 2,211 2,160 South West 1,546 1,433 1,486 1,533 1,540 England 20,088 17,774 16,025 15,782 14,900 Source: Communities and Local Government Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix return (HSSA).
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Barking and Dagenham 86 203 127 127 137 Barnet 115 99 73 88 80 Bexley 0 0 0 0 0 Brent 21 16 23 16 29 Bromley 0 0 0 0 0 Camden 108 110 88 94 57 City of London 4 6 4 5 6 Croydon 154 154 148 159 145 Ealing 102 105 61 15 46 Enfield 68 103 90 150 138 Greenwich 131 183 211 106 165 Hackney 41 59 63 41 67 Hammersmith and Fulham 98 107 71 74 55 Haringey 79 72 59 66 54 Harrow 29 35 18 21 29 Havering 72 63 46 56 64 Hillingdon 162 145 141 101 69 Hounslow 173 175 124 133 114 Islington 193 139 163 101 167 Kensington and Chelsea 31 30 36 15 .36 Kingston upon Thames 41 45 40 46 34 Lambeth 96 101 66 36 15 Lewisham 250 291 160 148 93 Merton 62 59 45 51 48 Newham 107 115 99 88 85 Redbridge 22 16 21 30 31 Richmond upon Thames 0 0 0 0 0 Southwark 144 180 160 128 133 Sutton 79 85 98 98 74 Tower Hamlets 111 141 62 84 26 Waltham Forest 96 173 108 101 118 Wandsworth 85 112 66 92 89 Westminster 51 80 51 29 39 Source: Communities and Local Government Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix return (HSSA).