Social housing rents are set using factors such as local income. A policy was introduced in 2002(ie under LABOUR) to increase the varying social rent levels in area UPWARDS until they were the same.
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Chapter 10 of the Labour Government’s Housing Green Paper, Quality and Choice: A decent home for all, (April 2000) focused on the need to develop a fairer system of affordable rents in the social housing sector. Rent restructuring has been in place since 2002; the initial aim was to achieve the alignment of social sector rents (in the local authority and housing association sectors) by 2012.
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That 2012 target was extended by this government to 2015/2016, thereby REDUCING the annual rent increases.