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Housing Needs Assessment 2006 - Westminster City Council

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<strong>Westminster</strong> – <strong>Housing</strong> <strong>Needs</strong> <strong>Assessment</strong> <strong>2006</strong>Grossing-upConverting the numbers of actual responses in a social survey to an estimate of the number for thewhole population. This normally involves dividing the expected number in a group by the numberof responses in the survey.HouseholdOne person living alone or a group of people who have the address as their only or main residenceand who either share one meal a day or share a living room.Household formationThe process whereby individuals in the population form separate households. ‘Gross’ or ‘new’household formation refers to households which form over a period of time, conventionally oneyear. This is equal to the number of households existing at the end of the year which did not exist asseparate households at the beginning of the year (not counting ‘successor’ households, when theformer head of household dies or departs).<strong>Housing</strong> market areaThe geographical area in which a substantial majority of the employed population both live andwork, and where most of those changing home without changing employment choose to stay.<strong>Housing</strong> needThe situation in which households lack their own housing or are living in housing which isinadequate or unsuitable and who are unlikely to be able to meet their needs in the housing marketwithout some assistance.<strong>Housing</strong> RegisterA database of all individuals or households who have applied to a LA or RSL for a social tenancyor access to some other form of affordable housing. <strong>Housing</strong> Registers, often called Waiting Lists,may include not only people with general needs but people with support needs or requiring accessbecause of special circumstances, including homelessness.PAGE 162

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