The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is reforming social housing rent policy, including proposals to restore Local Housing Allowance rates, implement Social Rent convergence, and reform subsidy rules for council housing. Multiple bills are progressing including the Co-operative Housing Tenure Bill and Carers Bedroom Entitlement Bill. The policy aims to improve affordability and value for money in the social housing sector.
In response to: Direction on the rent standard 2026
This plan sets in place the foundations for a decade of renewal in social and affordable housing.
The government’s manifesto committed to reviewing the increased Right to Buy discounts introduced in 2012 to better protect the existing stock of social housing.
In response to: Shared ownership rents reform
Reforms to shared ownership rents for new shared owners including switching the maximum amount that shared ownership rents can increase by once a year from the Retail Prices Index (RPI) plus 0.5%, to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) plus 1%.
This white paper sets out our plans to fundamentally reform the private rented sector and level up housing quality in this country.
Business rate retention accounts as required under schedule 7B of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.
A response by the government to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee's report on long-term delivery of social and affordable rented housing.
This direction will apply to standards set by the social housing regulator in relation to rent for registered providers from 1 April 2015.
This general consent enables registered providers of social housing to use a different date to determine the baseline rent.
We're improving the quality and quantity of social homes for rent and encouraging investment in the private rented sector.