AQW 5498/22-27


Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford


Tabled Date: 05/02/2024
Answered On Date: 20/02/2024
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities to outline (i) the average percentage increase in rents; and, (ii) the average total increase in rents for each year between 2014-2024 for social homes owned by each of the twenty housing associations in Northern Ireland.


Revised Answer:
My Department does not hold this information for 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17 or 2023/24. Information on the average increase in rents for social homes owned by each of the twenty Registered Housing Associations (RHAs) in Northern Ireland from 2017/18 to 2022/23 is provided by RHAs in their Regulatory Standards Annual Return. The figures, as provided by RHAs, are set out in the table below:
RHA
2017/18
2018/19
2019/20
2020/21
2021/22
2022/23
Abbeyfield & Wesley
3%
3.60%
3%
3.45%
2.20%
5.15%
Alpha
1.55%
4.49%
2.08%
2.70%
1.50%
4.80%
Apex
2%
2%
3%
2.75%
1%
3.75%
Arbour
2%
3.50%
3.25%
2.65%
1.10%
3.95%
Ark
2%
2%
3%
2.90%
1.50%
4.10%
Choice
1.90%
2.79%
2.25%
1.47%
0.50%
3.48%
Clanmil
1.85%
4.52%
2.90%
2.92%
1%
3.90%
Connswater
3%
2.22%
1.97%
1.70%
1.60%
5.90%
Covenanter
0%
3%
2.80%
0%
0%
2.90%
Craigowen
0%
7.66%
2.44%
1.56%
3.15%
1.75%
Grove
1.25%
1.50%
1.50%
2.90%
2.90%
4.00%
Habinteg
2%
3.50%
2.60%
2.70%
1.50%
4.10%
Newington
2%
2%
1.40%
1.35%
0.50%
3.10%
NI Co-Ownership
2%
4%
3.30%
0%
1.30%
3.80%
North Belfast
1.75%
2.75%
3%
2.50%
1%
3.00%
Radius
1.99%
4%
2.4%
2.45%
1%
4.1%
Rural
2.95%
1.50%
2.95%
0%
1.60%
4.95%
St Matthews
1.50%
2.80%
2.40%
1.70%
0%
3.10%
Triangle
0%
2%
2.40%
2.70%
1.50%
4.60%
Woodvale and Shankill
2%
2%
2%
1%
0%
2%
ii) My Department does not hold the information requested.