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Residential Landlords Association
The prime objective of the RLA is to campaign in Government and Parliament on behalf of our members

Local Housing Allowance Questionnaire

Question 1

Do you own properties rented to tenants receiving local housing allowance?

Yes
No

Question 2

If you do, in which areas of the UK are these properties located?
(please provide first part of postcode(s) e.g. SW10, LS1, B23) - please enter multiple postcodes seperated by a comma

Question 3

What percentage of your total rental properties are rented to tenants receiving local housing allowance?

Less than 10%
10-20%
20-30%
30-50%
50-75%
More than 75%

Question 4

How many of your Local Housing Allowance tenants are... (please state number)

Unemployed for one year or more?

Unemployed for less than one year?

In-work claimants?

How many LHA tenants do you have?

Question 5

Following the Emergency Budget and the proposed cuts in local housing allowance, will you be looking to keep your local housing allowance receiving tenants or looking to re-let the property?

keeping local housing allowance tenants
replacing tenants at end of tenancy
selling property
redeveloping property

Question 6

How far would you be willing to lower your rent before you would seek a non-LHA receiving tenant?

none
> 10%
10-20%
20-30%
More

Question 7

What are the greatest difficulties you are facing with tenants in receipt of local housing allowance?

Tenant failing to pay rent from local housing allowance
Administration problems by local authority
Unable to obtain direct payments

other :

Question 8

How confident are you of your landlording business looking forward?
(0 = not confident at all 5 = extremely confident)

Question 9

The Coalition Government’s has proposed changes to LHA. Which of the Government’s proposals concern you:
(0 = not concerned at all 5 = extremely concerned)

Reduction of around 10% in LHA rates due to reducing the level from the median (50th down to the 30th percentile point)

Removing the tenant’s right to keep up to £15 from LHA

Reducing the LHA rate to 90% where the claimant/tenant has been on job seeker's allowance for 12 months.

Applying caps to the individual LHA rates for room sizes

Cutting out the five-bedroom rate for LHA

Up-rating non dependent allowances so that tenants with non dependants will have to find more from their own money towards their rent

Removing the link between market rents and LHA (instead LHA will eventually rise according to the consumer prices index)

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