Tag: Local Housing Allowance

Thousands of older private renters in poverty due to LHA shortfall

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd April 2026, 3 weeks ago | 3

More than 30,000 older private renters would be pulled out of poverty if Local Housing Allowance (LHA) matched actual rents,...

Charity calls for action to support older private renters as LHA rates remain frozen

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd April 2026, 1 month ago | 0

A charity is urging the government to unfreeze Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates after research reveals an increase in pensioners...

Scottish government pledges millions of pounds to offset LHA freeze

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th March 2026, 2 months ago | 0

The Scottish government has announced it will provide £9 million in extra funding to tackle the Local Housing Allowance (LHA)...

Charities urge government to unfreeze LHA rates as homelessness surges

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd March 2026, 2 months ago | 2

Rough sleeping and homelessness figures reach record highs as charities calls for the government to unfreeze Local Housing Allowance (LHA)...

Taskforce urges government to restore LHA rates

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th February 2026, 3 months ago | 10

As the number of people living in temporary accommodation rises, a taskforce has called on the government to restore Local...

Scottish ministers call on UK to reverse Local Housing Allowance freeze

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th February 2026, 3 months ago | 1

The Scottish Housing Secretary has written to the UK government, warning that the continued freeze of Local Housing Allowance (LHA)...

Rising rents pushing renters into poverty claims charity

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th February 2026, 3 months ago | 7

Sky-rocketing rents are pushing millions of renters into poverty, a charity has claimed. A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation...

Government defends freeze of Local Housing Allowance rates

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st January 2026, 4 months ago | 4

The government has claimed a range of factors were considered when Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates were frozen for a...

Backlash grows over continued frozen LHA rates

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th November 2025, 5 months ago | 0

Landlord and tenant organisations have criticised the Chancellor Rachel Reeves for freezing local housing allowance (LHA) rates in the Autumn...

Only 1% of London rental homes affordable under LHA rates

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd October 2025, 7 months ago | 1

Average rents continue to outpace Local Housing Allowance rates (LHA), pushing families into homelessness, according to a new report. Data...

Landlord incentives branded a ‘waste of public money’ by Generation Rent

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd September 2025, 8 months ago | 13

Generation Rent has accused landlords of ‘rigging the system to line their own pockets’ after findings revealed councils are spending...

Oh dear, Angela Rayner. What can landlords do to help you on LHA?

Author: Landlord Crusader

11th July 2025, 10 months ago | 13

As Ronan Keating once said: “You say it best, when you say nothing at all”,  Angela’s appearance in front of...

Angela Rayner accuses landlords of profiting from local housing allowance

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th July 2025, 10 months ago | 44

Angela Rayner has rejected calls to unfreeze the local housing allowance (LHA) arguing that increasing LHA rates would simply funnel...

MP claims landlords are pocketing taxpayer money while neglecting properties

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th June 2025, 11 months ago | 19

An MP has accused landlords of keeping taxpayers’ money while failing to meet basic property standards. In a Work and...

Generation Rent calls for rent freeze amid growing homelessness

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th May 2025, 1 year ago | 19

Generation Rent has issued an urgent call for the UK government to cap rising rents, pointing to a deepening housing...

London councils’ landlord Capital Letters faces closure amid market challenges

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th April 2025, 1 year ago | 4

Capital Letters, an organisation established by several London councils to tackle the growing homelessness issue and cut costs on temporary...

NRLA demands reform as just 5% of PRS properties are affordable for housing benefit claimants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th March 2025, 1 year ago | 1

Only 5% of private rented properties are affordable to benefit claimants, according to new research. Data from the National Institute...

Universal Credit overhaul will affect rent payments from April

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th March 2025, 1 year ago | 23

Landlords are being warned that there are big alterations to Universal Credit coming which will transform how rent payments are...

Landlords selling up is fuelling the UK’s housing crisis

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th January 2025, 1 year ago | 11

A Parliamentary report has underlined the critical connection between inadequate Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates and the mounting risk of...

Homelessness bill is pushing London’s councils ‘to the brink’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th January 2025, 1 year ago | 5

London Councils is warning that rocketing homelessness in the capital is ‘pushing boroughs to the brink’, with unsustainable pressure on...