{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988/schedule-2/part-I/crossheading-ground-5f",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988/schedule-2/part-I/crossheading-ground-5f.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/50",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/I/crossheading/ground-5f",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Ground 5F",
  "text": "The dwelling-house was supported accommodation when the tenancy was granted and any of the following applies—\n(a)the tenancy was granted for the purpose of providing the tenant with support services for a limited time in order to enable the tenant to be able to live in other accommodation in the future and the period for which those support services were to be provided has ended;\n(b)a person other than the landlord provides or provided support services to the tenant, but—\n(i)the support services have come to an end or the person is not fulfilling their obligations under the arrangements for the provision of those services, and\n(ii)where the dwelling-house is not managed accommodation, the landlord has used reasonable endeavours to find another person to provide support services to the tenant but has not been able to do so;\n(c)where the accommodation or support services were funded wholly or partly by someone other than the landlord or the tenant—\n(i)that funding is no longer being provided,\n(ii)where the dwelling-house is not managed accommodation, the landlord used reasonable endeavours to identify alternative funding before the relevant date but was not able to do so, and\n(iii)it would not be reasonable for the landlord to continue to provide accommodation or for the person who provided support services to continue that provision in the circumstances;\n(d)the financial viability of the landlord or of supported accommodation or support services the landlord provides to others would, in the landlord’s reasonable opinion, be threatened if the landlord were to continue to provide or fund a supported accommodation project of which the tenant’s dwelling-house forms part and the landlord used reasonable endeavours to identify alternative funding for the project before the relevant date but was not able to do so;\n(e)the tenant does not need the level of support services that are provided;\n(f)the tenant does not need any support services;\n(g)the support services that are provided do not meet the tenant’s needs;\n(h)the dwelling-house has physical features intended to enable persons with needs for particular support services to live more independently than they could do so without those features and those physical features are not needed by the tenant;\n(i)the dwelling-house is physically unsuitable for a person with the tenant’s needs for support services to live in.\nIn paragraph (d), “supported accommodation project” means—\n(a)supported accommodation consisting of two or more dwelling-houses in the same building as, or otherwise nearby, each other,\n(b)supported accommodation consisting of two or more dwelling-houses occupied by tenants who receive support services of a similar kind, or\n(c)support services of a similar kind provided to tenants of two or more dwelling-houses that are supported accommodation.\nIn this ground, references to the “landlord” are to the landlord who is seeking possession.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Ground 5F inserted (1.5.2026 for specified purposes) by Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (c. 26), s. 145(1)(8), Sch. 1 para. 17(1) (with ss. 138, 146(1), Sch. 6 paras. 1, 3, 4, 16, 17); S.I. 2026/421, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "anaw/2014/7",
      "affecting_title": "Housing (Wales) Act 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/schedule/2/part/I/crossheading/ground-5f",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:37.392139+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}