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Housing Demand
Demand for accommodation has an impact on people and communities in different ways according to personal and wider economic circumstances. Where demand exceeds supply, market housing prices or rents will increase, and this in turn can lead to higher demand for social housing and, in extreme cases, homelsessness. This is recognised in the priorities detailed in the Somerset Strategic Housing Framework.
In particular, Priority 1 is to increase the supply of affordable housing to support economic growth and development, and Priority 3 is to meet the housing and accommodation related support needs of Somerset's most vulnerable and least resilient residents.
This section features data and intelligence on topics related to these priorities, and will be expanded in the coming weeks
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Somerset in 2025 is ranked as 93 out of a total of 153 of Upper Tier English local authorities, up from 92 in 2019. Moving from rank 92 to 93 means the authority is relatively less deprived compared to others, but the difference is very minimal. (Indices of Deprivation 2025).