Michael van Neste has used the JHT annual report to argue that the shortage that has been a problem since the end of the Second World War is finally close to being solved. He says that the development of hundreds of homes by the trust in recent years has played a major part in providing adequate housing for almost all Islanders who require it. ‘In the last few years we have been involved in the development of 700 units which has made a big impact on waiting lists for rented housing,’ said Mr van Neste. ‘We are closer to solving that shortage than we have ever been.’ He cited the Le Coie development at Springfield – which the JHT have recently acquired – as one of the biggest steps towards finding homes for tenants who need them. But although the trust have a waiting list of several hundred at the beginning of 2007 – and all their properties are fully let – Mr van Neste said that most of these people were in adequate housing already.
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