Leicester City Council's Revenues and Customer Support team collated this dataset in July 2022. It compares Local Housing Allowance support rates to contractual rents to identify weekly shortfalls in Housing Benefit provision. The data is organized by administrative ward.
Use Cases
- Calculate weekly housing benefit shortfalls based on the described comparison of LHA rates and contractual rent.
- Map geographic disparities in housing support based on the ward-level structure mentioned in the title.
- Analyze the adequacy of Local Housing Allowance rates for different rental markets using the described shortfall metric.
- Support policy evaluation for housing cost assistance programs based on the identified benefit provision gaps.
Strengths
- Dataset is linked to an interactive visualization, suggesting some level of curation and validation.
- Data was collated by a specific municipal team (Leicester City Council’s Revenues and Customer Support), indicating an official source.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Leicester City Council
- Collection Method
- Collated by the council's Revenues and Customer Support team.
- Time Range
- July 2022
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-17 11:34:54.053031; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Leicester, UK, at the ward level.