Social Rented Housing: Eligibility
Commons · Question 123982 · Tabled 25 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 17 Apr 2026
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of differences between local authorities in the qualification criteria used to determine access to social housing registers.
Answer
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 17 Apr 2026
My Department commissioned a Systems-wide Evaluation of Homelessness and Rough Sleeping, which explored Social Housing Allocations and the use of qualification criteria used to determine access to social housing registers. The report can be found on gov.u...