Housing affordability briefing paper

The housing affordability briefing paper highlights housing affordability and homelessness issues in Poole.

Key findings

• historically, house prices in Poole are high relative to local incomes
  
• Poole's housing remains relatively unaffordable; the ratio of lower quartile house prices to full-time lower quartile incomes is nearly ten to one
  
• a growing population and smaller household sizes are fuelling significant demand for new homes
  
• rents in the private sector are relatively high.
  
• the number of families classified as homeless in Poole appears to be decreasing