Housing: Costs

(asked on 13th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information he holds on monthly housing costs as a proportion of income (a) in each region, (b) among different types of tenure and (c) in other categories; and what assessment he has made of trends in the level of that proportion in those categories.


Answered by
Esther McVey Portrait
Esther McVey
Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 21st January 2020

MHCLG routinely reports housing costs as a proportion of income by tenure in the English Housing Survey (EHS) Headline Report. The most recent data are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2017-to-2018-headline-report (see Annex Table 1.13)

The latest assessment of housing costs as a proportion of income by region and other characteristics can be found in the following reports:

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