AQW 5498/22-27 Written question to the Minister for Communities
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.
Asked by Kellie Armstrong MLA on 5 February 2024
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 5 February 2024
- Answer due by
- 20 February 2024
- Answered
- 20 February 202415 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Communities
- Priority question
- No
Answer
My Department does not hold this information for 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17 or 2023/24. The average increase in rents for social homes owned by each of the twenty housing associations in Northern Ireland from 2017/18 – 2022/23 are set out in the table below:
| Registered Housing Association | 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% | 3.48% | 8.50% |
| Clanmil | 0% | 4.52% | 2.90% | 2.92% | 1% | 3.90% |
| Connswater | 3% | 2.22% | 1.97% | 1.70% | 1.60% | 5.90% |
| Covenanter | 0% | 7.66% | 2.44% | 1.56% | 3.15% | 1.75% |
| Grove | 0% | 3% | 2.80% | 0% | 0% | 2.90% |
| Habinteg | 1.25% | 1.50% | 1.50% | 2.90% | 2.90% | 4.00% |
| Newington | 2% | 3.50% | 2.60% | 2.70% | 1.50% | 4.10% |
| NICHA | 2% | 2% | 1.40% | 1.35% | 0.50% | 3.10% |
| North Belfast | 0% | 4% | 3.30% | 0% | 1.30% | 3.80% |
| Radius | 1.75% | 2.75% | 3% | 2.50% | 1% | 3.00% |
| Rural | 1.99% | 2.40% | 2.45% | 1% | 4.10% | 7.00% |
| St Matthews | 2.95% | 1.50% | 2.95% | 0% | 1.60% | 4.95% |
| Triangle | 1.50% | 2.80% | 2.40% | 1.70% | 0% | 3.10% |
| Woodvale and Shankill | 0% | 2% | 2.40% | 2.70% | 1.50% | 4.60% |
ii) My Department does not hold the information requested.