Houseboats: Rents
Commons · Question 34853 · Tabled 3 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Ruth Cadbury
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the level of rent for people living in houseboats with permanent moorings.
Answer
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 11 Mar 2025
There is limited data available on the number of houseboats and whether these are owner-occupied or rented. While houseboats with permanent moorings may be in the postcode address file and therefore eligible for inclusion in the English Housing Survey, th...