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A recent mystery shopping exercise found that people with typically white-sounding names received 25% more responses to their online inquiries about rental properties than those with traditionally south Asian names. A representative survey of 2,000 landlords by the TDS Charitable Foundation found that 56% of respondents who said they were unable to rent to individuals without a UK passport claimed it was due to the risk of a penalty for failing to comply with the right to rent regulations—in some cases because they believed a UK passport was a prerequisite for a tenancy. Nearly half of landlords surveyed said they found the right to rent checks too difficult or time-consuming.