Scottish Household Survey Annual Report

11 Social rented properties (local authority and housing association properties) (estimated 590,000 households and 1,170,000 people):  Forty-nine per cent of local authority and 62 per cent of housing association properties were flats.  Forty-two per cent of local authority properties and 54 per cent of housing association homes were located in the 20 per cent most deprived areas.  Six in 10 adults were not in employment (60 per cent for both local authority and housing association properties). The proportion of adults in social rented properties who were permanently sick or disabled was higher than those in all other tenure types (15 per cent of social rented properties compared to between one and three per cent in other tenures), and a further eight per cent were unemployed and seeking work.  Twenty-eight per cent of social rented households stated that they manage well financially, a figure lower than all other tenures.  Around half of adults stated that they would prefer to remain in social rented accommodation (51 per cent). Over a third (39 per cent) would most like to live in owner occupier accommodation. Households on housing lists: An estimated 130,000 (five per cent) of households were on a housing list in 2019, with a further 20,000 (0.7 per cent) of households estimated to have applied for social housing using a choice based letting system or similar within the last year, figures which are similar to those for the two previous years 2017 and 2018. Of the households on a housing list in 2019, two thirds (67 per cent) were on a single list and over half (56 per cent) had been on a housing list for three years or less. For around a third (32 per cent) of social rented households on a housing list, the main reason was to move to a bigger or smaller property. The main reason for private rented households was that they could not afford current housing / would like cheaper housing (30 per cent of private rented households on a housing list). The main reason for owner occupier households to be on a list was to move to a property away from parents or partner (36 per cent).