- Just under three quarters of the total sample (72%) ‘slightly’ or ‘strongly agree’ that the licensing will help to enable council officers to utilise enforcement powers effectively to significantly drive up housing standards, housing management and the wellbeing of tenants in high risk properties
- Over three quarters of local residents neighbouring a HMO (81%), and two thirds of tenants in a non-licensed HMO (68%) ‘slightly’ or ‘strongly agree’ that the licensing will help to meet this aim
- Over half of HMO landlords (56.5%) ‘slightly’ or ‘strongly disagree’ that the licensing will help to meet this aim
Aim 4: Feelings about the aim
Summary
To what extent do you agree or disagree that licensing will help to meet the following objective:
To enable council officers to utilise enforcement powers effectively to significantly drive up housing standards, housing management and the wellbeing of tenants in high risk properties?
Base: Total sample (922) | Local resident neighbouring a HMO (389) | Tenant in a non-licensed HMO (103) | HMO landlord (97)
This chart shows that:
Of the total sample, 53% ‘strongly agree’, 19% ‘slightly agree’, 11% ‘neither agree nor disagree’, 4% ‘slightly disagree’, and 13% ‘strongly disagree’ that the licensing will help to meet Aim 4
Of local residents neighbouring a HMO, 62% ‘strongly agree’, 19% ‘slightly agree’, 10.5% ‘neither agree nor disagree’, 2.5% ‘slightly disagree’, and 6% ‘strongly disagree’ that the licensing will help to meet Aim 4
Of tenants in a non-licenced HMO, 50.5% ‘strongly agree’, 17.5% ‘slightly agree’, 17% ‘neither agree nor disagree’, 7% ‘slightly disagree’, and 8% ‘strongly disagree’ that the licensing will help to meet Aim 4
Of HMO landlords, 11.5% ‘strongly agree’, 16.5% ‘slightly agree’, 15.5% ‘neither agree nor disagree’, 8% ‘slightly disagree’, and 48.5% ‘strongly disagree’ that the licensing will help to meet Aim 4
