As inflation reaches a 40-year high, many Registered Providers of Social Housing (RPs) have a choice to make: do they increase shared ownership rents in line with the levels permitted under tenants’ leases, thereby putting more financial squeeze on tenants, or do they resist imposing such a rent increase, resulting in additional cost pressures for their own business? 

The shared ownership model, where tenants own a share of their property and rent the remaining share from their RP landlord, accounts for approximately 200,000 affordable homes across the country.