AQW 3426/17-22

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 10/03/2020
Answered On Date: 10/07/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities for an update on her Department’s Private Rented Sector in Northern Ireland - Proposals for Change paper; and what action she intends to take to implement its recommendations.

Answer:

Housing, and in particular the role and regulation of the Private Rented Sector, is one of my priorities. My Department’s consultation exercise on proposals for change to the role and regulation of the private rented sector ended on 3 April 2017. The Department is currently carrying out a comprehensive review of the role and regulation of the private rented sector to ensure the regulatory framework and supporting policy improve standards for the benefit of both tenants and landlords. The areas being reviewed include:

Supply

Affordability

Security of tenure

Tenancy management

Property standards

Dispute resolution

I am currently considering how to take forward the recommendations in that review, and what other measures may be necessary.