A new 83 page report, Private Landlords and the Local Housing Allowance system of Housing Benefit, by David Rhodes and Mark Bevan was published on Friday. The authors, both from the Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York, researched the views of private landlords and letting agents on letting to Housing Benefit (HB) claimants under the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rules. The research was part of a two year review of the LHA system of HB by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
The research involved 60 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with private landlords and letting agents. Six local authorities were selected; Bradford, Cornwall, Coventry, Edinburgh, London borough of Newham, and Sunderland.Some features of claiming HB under the LHA rules were positive, including greater transparency and simplicity, as well as the removal of pre-tenancy determinations, but, say the authors, there was considerable strength of feeling against direct payments from a majority of respondents.
You can download the full document at:
http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/report_abstracts/rr_abstracts/rra_689.asp
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