Inside Housing – Home – The English Housing Survey 2021-22: the key takeaways

Energy
Across all tenures, the most energy-efficient properties belonged to housing associations, with 70% of those properties in EPC bands A to C, while the remaining 30% are in bands D to G. By contrast, just 14% of private rented homes were in bands A to C.
A to C-rated dwellings were most prevalent in London (56%), the North East (52%) and the South East (52%). The East Midlands was the least efficient region (39%).
Social housing was cheaper to retrofit than other tenures. In 2021-22, the estimated average cost to improve local authority homes to a rating of at least Band C was £5,345, with housing association homes costing £5,158.
Owner-occupied and private rented dwellings costed an average of £7,872 and £7,430 respectively.
Across all tenures, 179,000 homes (less than 1% of total stock) had a heat pump – up from 114,000 in 2020. Of these, 15% were owned by housing associations and 8% by local authorities.
Social renters were more likely to pay their electricity bills using a pre-payment meter than other tenures. Thirty-nine per cent of local authority renters and 37% of housing association renters paid for electricity using a pre-payment meter.
Private rented sector
The private rented sector is the second largest tenure, with roughly 4.6 million households representing nearly one-fifth (19%) of households in England.
Private renters continue to spend a higher proportion of their household income on rent compared with those in other tenures. This is particularly the case for those in the lowest two income quintiles, of which seven in 10 spend above 30% on rent.
On average, private renters spend 33% of their income on rent. This is higher than for social renters, who spend around 27% on rent, and for people with mortgages, who spend 22% of their income on their mortgage.
For those in the bottom two income quintiles (or the 40% of renters with the lowest incomes), 71% spend more than 30% of their income on rent. 
The most common reason a household said their last tenancy ended was because they wanted to move (77%).
Less common reasons included the end of a fixed period tenancy (11%), mutual agreement with the landlord (10%), they were evicted or asked to leave by their landlord/agent (4%), due to a poor relationship with the landlord (3%), or the tenancy was part of a job that ended (2%).
The majority of private renters eventually expect to buy a home, though most did not expect to buy in the next few years. In total, 28% of these think they will purchase in the next two years, though purchase periods of two to five years (37%) or five or more years (35%) are more common.
Buying intention declines with age: renters in the 16 to 24 age band are more likely to say they would eventually buy (85%), than those aged 45 to 64 (42%), those aged 65 to 74 (16%) or those aged 75 or older (7%).
Homes in the private rented sector are more likely than homes in other sectors to fail the DHS. This is the case in nearly all regions. In 2021, 14% of private rented sector homes were estimated to be unsafe according to the HHSRS. 



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