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Private Rented Housing

Commons · Question 41989 · Tabled 27 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 4 Apr 2025

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Asked by Carla Denyer

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 2.62 of the Office for Budget Responsibility Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published on 26 March 2025, CP 1289, what assessment she has made of the pot

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Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 4 Apr 2025

The factors affecting affordability in the private rented sector are complex and difficult to disentangle. As well as the size of the total housing stock, they include the movement of tenants into homeownership and social rented housing, house prices, tax...