Not every social landlord is a council: some are housing associations, others are arms-length bodies managing council homes. This simply records which kind of organisation each landlord is. It matters because comparisons are only fair within a type — councils, associations and others face different pressures — and because it's how you filter this landlord data down to councils specifically.
| name | ho_landlord_type |
|---|---|
| dataset | 09-ombudsman-lgsco |
| kind | extracted |
| type | category |
| unit | category |
| grain | landlord-year |
| role | stratifier |
| source | data/housing-ombudsman/Tables-for-landlords-with-individual-performance-reports-2024-25.xlsx, sheet `Table 1`, column `Landlord type` |
| period | 2024-25 |
| missingness | Table rows exist only for landlords with 5+ findings in 2024-25 — treat absence as missing, not zero. Join to LGSCO/TSM data is by landlord name and lossy (ALMO/association names don't match council names). |
| score_note | Clean stratifier for filtering to councils; no efficiency content of its own. |
| peer_group | registered landlords (RSH-regulated, 1,000+ homes) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
The landlord's type: Housing Association, Local Authority / ALMO or TMO, or Other. Used to filter to councils and to stratify comparisons — different landlord types face different pressures and stock profiles.