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Call for greater council involvement with private tenants
Working with five councils across Britain, the tenants’ campaign organisation Generation Rent is striving to encourage tenants to call more often for help from their…
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Johnson plots end to ‘generation rent’
Housing association tenants are to be given the right to buy their homes, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced. Currently, council tenants are eligible to…
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Call for limit of rent increases
Without an overhaul of rent tribunals, renters will continue to face unaffordable rent increases and economic evictions after the abolition of Section 21 evictions. This…
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Generation Rents sets out wish list
An end to automatic evictions for rent arrears, four month notice periods with a winter ‘truce’ on evictions, a national register of landlords, and compensation…
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Small cheer for landlords in Sunak’s latest Budget
‘We want to turn Generation Rent into Generation Buy’, said Chancellor Rishi Sunak when delivering his 2021 Budget this week. It contained an extension of…
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Private Rental Sector Booming – Unless Under 21
The last decade has seen a phenomenal growth in the private rental sector, with the numbers having risen by 20% over the last ten years….
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‘Generation Rent’ Has No Age Limit
A lot has been written and said about ‘Generation Rent’ as it applies to young people, unable to gain a foothold on the property ladder…
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Improvement Legislation or Government Attack
The recent raft of huge changes in legislation, tax and eviction costs make it difficult to see them as anything other than an overt challenge…
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Generation Rent and the Private Sector
There has been a lot written and said about ‘Generation Rent’, the young workers who, until perhaps 10 years ago, would have automatically assumed that…