Local Housing Allowance Shortfalls by Ward in Leicester, July 2022

Leicester City Council data from July 2022 compares Local Housing Allowance rates to contractual rents to identify weekly shortfalls in Housing Benefit provision. The dataset was collated by the council's Revenues and Customer Support team. It provides a ward-level breakdown of support levels for housing costs.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial disparities in housing benefit adequacy based on ward-level shortfalls.
• Model the gap between welfare support and market rents based on the described LHA rate vs. rent comparison.
• Assess the impact of Local Housing Allowance policy on low-income households based on the weekly shortfall metric.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from a specific local government authority (Leicester City Council).
• Dataset provides a specific temporal snapshot (July 2022).
• Focuses on a defined geographic area (Leicester wards).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Leicester City Council’s Revenues and Customer Support team.

Collection Method

Collated by a local government team, likely from administrative records.

Time Range

July 2022

Freshness

Snapshot from July 2022; update frequency is unknown.

Geography

Leicester, United Kingdom (ward-level).