Petition Cap private rents at Local Housing Allowance (LHA) levels in England

LHAs are not typical of private rents. Those claiming Housing Benefit still have to top up their total rent from other benefits - often an impossible task, leading to rent arrears and crippling poverty. LHAs must be brought into line with actual private rents, or rents capped at the level of LHA.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

14 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 14 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 12 February 2017
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.