Writing in Property118, the Landlord Crusader has published an opinion piece on the Government’s view of the LHA rate, stating

Angela Rayner’s recent committee appearance was revealing — not because of what she said, but how little she seems to understand after a year in the job. After years of blaming landlords, she still hasn’t grasped how housing works.

She dismissed calls to unfreeze Local Housing Allowance (LHA), claiming it would “only benefit landlords.” Really? LHA was meant to help low-income tenants afford rent, but it’s been frozen while rents and costs have soared. The result? Landlords can’t viably let to benefit tenants, and those tenants are falling into arrears.

Angela says landlords evict tenants “without reason” to chase higher rents — but what she ignores is that rents are outpacing LHA, and we’re being asked to subsidise housing out of our own pockets.

Many landlords want to rent to benefit tenants, but can’t survive on rates set years ago. Add licensing costs, rising mortgages, and repairs, and you can see why Section 8 evictions are up.

She bangs on about building 1.5 million homes — but that’ll take years. Meanwhile, UK families are being priced out, while Serco gets paid inflated rates to house new arrivals.

Labour could fix this overnight by unfreezing LHA. Instead, they’re punishing landlords and leaving vulnerable tenants worse off.

If this is the start of Angela’s “social housing revolution”, it’s already failing — and taking thousands of families with it.