{"id":75793,"date":"2025-05-29T07:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T07:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75793"},"modified":"2025-05-29T07:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T07:16:50","slug":"theres-water-running-down-the-walls-social-housing-complaints-soar-by-162-as-council-repairs-costs-quadruple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/29\/theres-water-running-down-the-walls-social-housing-complaints-soar-by-162-as-council-repairs-costs-quadruple\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There&#8217;s water running down the walls&#8217;: Social housing complaints soar by 162% as council repairs costs quadruple"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.lbc.co.uk\/images\/684612?crop=16_9&amp;width=660&amp;relax=1&amp;format=webp&amp;signature=sW_iJvUmCjHH52oEzXy2O7WAAFU=\" alt=\"More issues\" width=\"549\" height=\"732\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An investigation by LBC has found local councils are experiencing a surge in the number of complaints concerning the condition of social housing and, as a result, facing ever-increasing repair bills. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/news\/social-housing-complaints-middleton-manchester-council-repairs-damp-mould\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>An investigation by LBC has found local councils are experiencing a surge in the number of complaints concerning the condition of social&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/social_housing-complaint.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75795,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75793\/revisions\/75795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}