Housing Market: Key Economic Indicators
Data on house prices, mortgage approvals and house-building.

This paper provides a guide to some reliable sources of information to help answer the most common constituents' housing questions.
Housing: key resources for constituency casework (England) (394 KB , PDF)
A significant proportion of the enquiries Members receive from constituents concern housing issues. Many are straightforward and can be answered using readily available information on the internet or in standard publications.
Local housing authorities and housing associations (registered providers of social housing) have internal complaints procedures. Details can be found on landlords’ websites. As a rule, these procedures should be exhausted before a complaint is taken to the Housing Ombudsman or the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman. The latter deals with complaints about homelessness, housing allocations, Housing Benefit and home improvement services.
The Library’s constituency casework pages on How to complain about rented housing (England) and How can homeowners in England resolve housing complaints provide further information.
The Localism Act 2011 introduced a ‘democratic filter’. Tenants who had exhausted their social landlord’s internal complaints procedure could refer certain complaints to the Housing Ombudsman Service for investigation, either: via a “designated person” (an MP, local councillor or designated tenant panel); or eight weeks after the end of their landlord’s internal complaints procedure. Background information is provided in the Library paper: Housing complaints – the role of designated persons.
The Building Safety Act 2022 has removed the democratic filter. From 1 October 2022, once the landlord’s complaints procedure has been exhausted, social tenants will be able to escalate complaints directly to the Housing Ombudsman. This is intended to speed up the complaints process for social tenants.
Where a complaint does not resolve a problem, the constituent may need professional legal advice and assistance. The Advicenow website has information on seeking legal aid and assistance. There is also a Library paper: Legal help: where to go and how to pay.
Housing: key resources for constituency casework (England) (394 KB , PDF)
Data on house prices, mortgage approvals and house-building.
This paper provides data on homeless households in temporary accommodation in England and outlines initiatives and issues associated with the use of temporary accommodation.
House of Commons Library publications on the rising cost of living in the UK, including causes of inflation, the effect on households, and Government support.