FOI release

Housing Stock

Case reference FOI2025/00931

Received 5 June 2025

Published 4 September 2025

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act, can you please tell me the following information from Guildford Borough Council:

1. How many units of social housing stock do you currently have?

2. How many units of social housing stock did you own in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025?

3. How many of these social housing units are currently in rental arrears?

4. How many of these social housing units were in rental arrears in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025?

5. What is the total value of these rental arrears?

6. What was the total value of these rental arrears in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025?

Please find the responses to your queries below:

Units of social housing stock as of 1st June 2025: 5,026.
Units of Social Housing Stock -- data recorded as at end of 31st March for each year:

2019: Data not available.

2020: Data not available.

2021: Data not available.

2022: 5,044.

2023: 5,040.

2024: 5,036.

2025: 5,026.
There are currently 1,049 units in rent arrears as of 1st June 2025.
Please note that we do not record data for total number of units in arrears each year.
The total value of arrears as of 1st June 2025 is £324,392.33.
Total value of arrears (as at the end of the financial year, 31st March) are as follows:

2019: £212,605.

2020: £250,858.

2021: £294,251.

2022: £167,256.

2023: £275,028.

2024: £361,524.

2025: £292,001.

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This is Guildford Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.