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Private tenants can have housing disrepair rights too. Learn when unresolved repairs may potentially lead to a claim, what evidence matters and what steps to take when a private landlord fails to act.

For the links, I’ve kept it clean with a strong internal link to our existing repair-reporting guide and one authoritative external GOV.UK link covering private landlord repair responsibilities. The English guidance confirms private landlords’ responsibilities for structure, sanitation, heating/hot water, gas and electrics, and the council enforcement route for serious hazards. The Wales section reflects the Renting Homes (Wales) Act framework, including repair/fitness obligations and the reasonable-time requirement after the landlord becomes aware of the problem.

There is no universal housing disrepair compensation calculator. Find out how rent, loss of use, severity, duration, evidence and financial losses can affect the amount of compensation considered.

The key legal point is sound: Shelter currently identifies inconvenience, financial loss, damaged belongings and health effects as potential compensation heads, while the Housing Ombudsman’s current social-housing methodology uses rent-based room benchmarks of 20% for a living room/bedroom and 30% for a kitchen/bathroom where use is substantially impaired. Those percentages are specifically an Ombudsman methodology, not a universal court tariff.

Reported repairs to your housing association but nothing is being done? This guide explains how to document the problem, make a formal complaint and escalate unresolved housing repairs.

If your council has been told about repairs but the problems are still unresolved, there are clear steps you can take. This guide explains how to build evidence, make a formal complaint and escalate the issue when repairs continue to be ignored.

You have reported the leaking roof. You have sent photographs of the mould. You have chased the broken boiler. Perhaps you have messaged your landlord or letting agent several times. And nothing seems to happen. If your landlord is ignoring repairs, repeatedly delaying work or sending contractors who fail to solve the problem, you do

If you rent your home from a housing association and serious repair problems are being left unresolved, you may be wondering whether you can make a housing association disrepair claim. Housing associations have responsibilities to keep the homes they rent safe and in an appropriate state of repair. Reporting a problem does not automatically mean

If you live in a council property with ongoing repair problems, you may be wondering whether you can make a council housing disrepair claim and what you need to do first. Council landlords have legal responsibilities to maintain their properties. A repair does not automatically become a disrepair claim simply because something has broken, but

If your rented home has serious repair problems that your landlord knows about but has failed to properly resolve, you may be wondering whether you have grounds for a housing disrepair claim. Problems such as persistent damp and mould, leaking roofs, broken heating, defective electrics, damaged windows, plumbing problems or structural defects can sometimes amount

What Happens After You Report Housing Disrepair? Reporting a repair should be the beginning of getting the problem fixed. Unfortunately, many council and housing association tenants find themselves reporting the same issue repeatedly, waiting for contractors who never arrive or being told a repair has been completed when the problem is still there. So, what