Activists urge renters to back more radical PRS reforms
Generation Rent wants people to lobby their local MP and urge them to back amendments to Renters Rights' Bill that would go further than current proposals.
Tenant group Generation Rent has urged the public to lobby their local MP to back more radical amendments to the Renters’ Rights Bill including proposals to bring in rent controls.
The group explains that the upcoming legislation won’t end high rental costs and hopes that as many MPs as possible will support proposals made by the Renters Reform Coalition during the next Commons debate in the new year.
If landlords are allowed to continue with unchecked and unaffordable rent rises, thousands more of us will still be forced into poverty.”
It explains: “The proposed blanket ban on landlords pitting tenant against tenant in bidding wars cannot come soon enough, but if landlords are allowed to continue with unchecked and unaffordable rent rises, thousands more of us will still be forced into poverty and on to the streets.
“Tenants are still vulnerable to homelessness if our landlord wants to sell or move in, while the new landlord database and higher standards won’t make a difference if it is easy for the worst landlords to avoid registering or making improvements.”
Non-payment
The Renters Reform Coalition’s proposals include an automatic right to non-payment of rent in the final two months before a tenant vacates, in cases where a landlord has used no-fault eviction grounds along with a proposal to protect renters from a no-fault eviction for the first two years of their tenancy.
It wants the Government to set up a national commission to investigate effective methods to make renting more affordable, including rent control measures and a cap on in-tenancy rent increases of the lowest of either inflation or wage growth.
The coalition is also calling for a new legal right to pause rent payments where a landlord fails to carry out essential repairs within a defined timeline.
A slow news day, wheel out Generation Rent.
We need to find who funds this anti-landlord organisation.
Being a landlord is not, illegal, immoral or fattening.
We provide stable homes where we want our tenants to live long term.
Building more homes in all tenures is the solution.
Taking in 901,000 extra inhabitants and building 180,000 extra homes is over 5 persons per unit.
Bunk beds anyone?
If you keep demonising landlords you wont be forced into poverty, you’ll be forced into living with mum & dad or homelessness.
Landlords do not dictate the price of rents. The market does. Simple basic fundamentals of economics: High demand, low supply price elasticity means prices rise.
If you demonise landlords they sell up decreasing supply. If you continue with mass immigration at a rate of Net close to a million a year you increase demand.
Its very simple. Think about it………….