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<p> </p><p> </p><p>It is still too early in the policy's lifetime to draw any firm
conclusions as to its effect, including the number of tenants who have moved home.
Rent arrears can have multiple causes and levels tend to fluctuate over time. A longer
timeframe than one year is required in order to see whether and, if so, to what extent
the removal of the spare room subsidy has impacted on rent arrears levels.</p><p>A
consortium led by Ipsos-MORI and which includes the Cambridge Centre for Housing and
Planning Research has been commissioned to carry out a two year monitoring of the
effects of the removal of the spare room subsidy measure across Great Britain.</p><p>The
Homes and Communities Agency reported in February that the median level of arrears
among the larger housing associations had fallen from 4.1% in the second quarter of
2013-14 to 3.9% in the third quarter of 2013-14.</p>
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