I think you’ll find that even from April 23, the max increase is 7% for Rp’s and other social housing.
Non social housing eg charities which are not RP, are CPI+1% equalling 11.1%
but I stand to be corrected

• This reply was modified 8 months ago by leonardpayne.

The Government emphasised rent ceiling will in no way relieve landlords of their responsibility to ensure that residents are safe in their homes, including complying with statutory health and safety obligations.

But where a provider is no longer able to meet these requirements, “or where complying with the revised Rent Standard would jeopardise a Registered Provider’s financial viability”, landlords can still apply for an exemption (or the disapplication of the revised Rent Standard), as per the processes under the current Rent Standard, the Government stated.

Supported housing will be exempted from the 7% rent ceiling due to the tighter operating margins, the Government said.

Responding to the policy, the National Housing Federation (NHF), which represents housing associations that house approximately six million people across England, said the Government’s response considered all of the points that the NHF raised in its submission to the consultation.

“For example, the government understood that in most cases, housing associations would not have elected to raise rents by the permitted CPI+1%, even without government action,” a NHF spokesperson noted.

The NHF added: “[The Government] is also keenly aware that holding rent increases below CPI+1% will mean housing associations are able to raise less rental income than they otherwise would, impacting their ongoing investment in existing and new homes.”

Alongside its response to the consultation, the Government has issued a final direction to the Regulator of Social Housing, requiring the regulator to set the new standard from 1 April 2023.

Note that the 7% restriction does apply to Shared Ownership property.

Also that there is wide support for a social tenant rent strike / rent increase strike.
Not sure what the impact of that would be if providers reduced non-HB rents.

Joe Halewood (well known in the housing arena) writes:
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29 Jan

Private renting is more affordable than social housing! SRS tenants pay a higher percentage of household income on rent than PRS tenants

I guess I’m confused as to the difference between SSH and good old regular ‘supported housing’
What I used to refer to as ‘exempt supported’.
There appears to be a lot of branches and side turnings.

In our own case we are a registered charity providing supported housing with a 24/7 support service.
We are not a RP. My understanding is that our increased could be CPI+1%
Equals 11.1%

Our LA likes to refer to us as social housing and having done the spreadsheets again
We have agreed a 6.4% increase from April 2023 which avoids anyone throwing their toys out

I don’t want to add to the confusion but i originally thought that all social housing was restricted to a 7% increase and that included RP (Registered provider of social housing)

I was wrong – Mea culpa

Providers of supported accommodation are not restricted to 7% whether they are RP’s or not.
It’s CPI+1% = 11.1%

Therefore your RP case providing support is restricted to 11.1% although even this has to be justified. It can’t just be added on. For example our charity could ask for the 11.1% but in looking at our figures, I couldn’t justify it so we went for 6.4% which was acceptable.

A useful link is

https://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/housing-law/397-housing-news/52548-social-housing-rent-increases-to-be-capped-at-7-next-year-government-announces

and I am sure you can find things on the .gov websites.

As ever, yiour mileage may vary.

My understanding is that Sheltered accomodation would be exempt from 7% cap ONLY IF it is treated as Specified Accomodation (some sheltered is and some aren’t).

Don’t think there is a formal cap on service charges and communal fuel charges, in particular, are likely to increase considerably.