Housing Ombudsman Decisions
Formal casework decisions from the Housing Ombudsman Service on complaints against social landlords in England. Decisions include maladministration findings, reasonable redress, and cases outside jurisdiction.
16,227
Total Decisions
11,758
Maladministration Found
2,212
No Maladministration
161
Severe Cases
Decisions by Year
Top Landlords by Volume
Clarion Housing Association Limited
817
Peabody Trust
522
London & Quadrant Housing Trust
517
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q)
488
Sanctuary Housing Association
360
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTV)
313
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Common Topics (last 2 years)
Top Landlords
Clarion Housing Association Limited (817)
Peabody Trust (522)
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (517)
London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q) (488)
Sanctuary Housing Association (360)
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTV) (313)
Hyde Housing Association Limited (309)
The Guinness Partnership Limited (299)
Southern Housing (273)
Southwark Council (266)
A2Dominion Housing Group Limited (239)
Notting Hill Genesis (229)
Showing 449 of 16,227 decisions matching "association"
Sanctuary Housing Association (202203195)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord's response to the resident's request to cut back trees in the back garden of the resident’s property.
Sanctuary Housing Association (202211416)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s administration and communication in relation to the resident’s service charge query.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202124288)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
This complaint is about the landlord’s: Decision not to install a particular style of fence. Response to the resident’s concerns about the boundary line. Response to the resident’s concerns that he had been discriminated against.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202219504)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request for a management move.
Muir Group Housing Association Limited (202201833)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to a complaint about communal cleaning provision. The landlord not providing a breakdown of service charges.
Habinteg Housing Association Limited (202124509)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of blocked drains outside her property. The landlord’s complaints handling.
Manningham Housing Association Limited (202104146)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns about it referring her to a mental health agency. The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB).
Bromford Housing Association Limited (202114834)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s decision to remove the communal porch doors to the resident’s property. its associated complaint handling.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202120262)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The resident’s reports concerning antisocial behaviour. The resident’s request for a management transfer. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s complaint handling.
Arawak Walton Housing Association Limited (202116152)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s maintenance of communal grounds; The landlord’s handling of reports of poor staff conduct toward the resident.
Orbit Housing Association Limited (202111421)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB) and his request for a management transfer.
The Riverside Group Limited (202121870)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the consultation process with residents, prior to the 2021 partnership between the landlord and another housing association. The Service has also considered any associated complaint handling.
Nottingham Community Housing Association Limited (202122912)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
This complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of noise disturbance and anti-social behaviour (ASB).
Swan Housing Association Limited (202208879)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s property transfer application.
Sanctuary Housing Association (202113020)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The resident’s complaint is about the landlord's handling of repairs to the kitchen taps of the property and her complaint about the conduct of the contractor undertaking the repair.
Steve Biko Housing Association Limited (202120451)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of noise nuisance.
English Rural Housing Association Limited (202121006)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: The applicant’s application to purchase a shared ownership property. The applicant’s complaint.
Orwell Housing Association Limited (202120347)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s decision to include the cost of decontaminating bins within the service charge; The landlord not providing individual bins to residents; and The landlord’s refusal to install CCTV.
Orbit Housing Association Limited (202210331)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request for a replacement shed.
Wandle Housing Association Limited (202205088)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request to pave her back garden to prevent pests from burrowing.
Sanctuary Housing Association (202105061)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
This complaint is about the landlord’s handling of: the priority awarded to the resident’s transfer application. the repairs to the resident’s property following the leak into the lounge; the related complaint.
Cottsway Housing Association Limited (202205746)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of, and response to, the resident’s application for a mutual exchange.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202109046)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns related to staff conduct. The landlord’s complaint handling.
West Kent Housing Association (202000668)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of defects with his new build property.
Orbit Housing Association Limited (202109170)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s Right to Buy (RTB) application.
Sanctuary Housing Association (202115661)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports about: Flooring in the property. A tree in the garden of the property. The shower at the property.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202015276)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The resident’s complaint is about the landlord's handling of external redecoration works to the property. The landlord’s complaint handling has also been considered.
Cotman Housing Association Limited (202016991)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s application to be rehoused.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202102182)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the resident’s concerns that that the landlord has withheld consent for adaptations works to be carried out.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202108787)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s request for succession to the tenancy at the property.
Broadland Housing Association Limited (202200995)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s: reports of issues with her boiler and a mouse infestation; concerns about its staff member’s conduct, in particular the advice provided on the condition of her property.
Hyde Housing Association Limited (202106822)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The resident’s complaint is about the landlord’s handling of her reports of Anti Social Behaviour (“ASB”) by a neighbour. The landlord’s complaint handling has also been considered.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202121725)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s concerns about the quality of the carpet in the property.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202102884)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s refusal of a request for a management transfer.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202200310)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request for a bathroom replacement.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202016189)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
This complaint is about the landlord’s response: to the resident’s report of anti- social behaviour (ASB) from her neighbours. to the resident’s report of staff conduct. to the related complaint.
Community Gateway Association Limited (202127389)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s request to install a boundary fence around her garden.
Castles & Coasts Housing Association Limited (202116974)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Estate Management
The complaint is about the landlord’s: response to a request to install a driveway to the front of the resident’s property; response to a request for a fence in the resident’s back garden; complaint handling.
Habinteg Housing Association Limited (202002958)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Information and data management
The complaint is about: The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports that the landlord falsified documents. The landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of staff conduct. The landlord’s response to the resident’s request for a move. The landlord’s handling of …
Orbit Housing Association Limited (202121373)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s decision to recharge the resident for damage caused to temporary accommodation.
Guinness Housing Association Limited (202128330)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint concerns how the landlord handled reports of damp and mould in the property and its decision not to offer compensation for damage caused to the resident’s personal items .
Sanctuary Housing Association (202123803)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
The complaint concerns: The landlord’s decision to issue a letter and email relating to its intention to begin possession proceedings and its handling of the resident’s concerns about its decision. The amount of compensation offered by the landlord for delays …
Hyde Housing Association Limited (202121737)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Managing Relations
REPORT COMPLAINT 202121737 Hyde Housing Association Limited 9 September 2022 Our approach The Housing Ombudsman’s approach to investigating and determining complaints is to decide what is fair in all the circumstances of the case. This […]
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202109659)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s compensation request in respect to structural works, for which she was decanted from her property for seven weeks.
Sovereign Housing Association Limited (202014672)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Moving/Buying/Selling Home
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s compensation claim about leaks which resulted in a decant.
Sanctuary Housing Association (202122653)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of repairs relating to her shed.
Innisfree Housing Association Limited (202112421)
No Maladministration
Complaint: ASB/Abuse/Nuisance
The complaint is about the landlord’s response to the resident’s reports of antisocial behaviour (ASB) from a neighbour.
Clarion Housing Association Limited (202117113)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Financial
The complaint is about the landlord’s handling of the resident’s: Request for a refund of the service charges and details of the costs. The landlord’s management of the resident’s rent account. The Ombudsman has also considered the landlord’s complaint handling …
Shepherds Bush Housing Association Limited (202107472)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Occupancy Rights
The complaint is about the landlord’s: Decision not to add the resident’s two children as members of the household on the tenancy. Response to a report of mice in the property.
Sanctuary Housing Association (202100264)
No Maladministration
Complaint: Old Property Condition migrated-2025
The complaint is about: The landlord’s handling of the resident’s reports concerning the condition of the kitchen at her property. The landlord’s response to the resident’s request for the kitchen to be replaced.