Increase could cause spike in rent arrears, report warns
Rents for Wigan ’s 22,000 council homes look set to rise by 2.7 per cent from April 2025. The same increase will be levied on garages and service charges ‘where appropriate’.
Rents for the town's 1,547 will go up from an average of £7.54 a week to £7.74. Currently, only 751 are occupied.Some 79pc of tenants are receiving full or partial housing benefit or universal credit. An increase in rents will have ‘no effect’ on tenants getting full benefit and ‘a lesser effect’ on partial benefit.
“The 2.7pc for 2025/26 will allow the HRA to continue to carry out its statutory duties and invest in its stock and asset management programmes,” the report says. It also says that ‘no vulnerable groups will be adversely affected by the proposals’.
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