As many as a third of private renters could still be forced to move home after long-awaited renters legislation has been passed, new research suggests, due to a lack of protection in the bill from unaffordable rent increases.
Nearly a third of private renters - an estimated 3.8 million people - "always" or "often" struggle to afford essentials like groceries due to the amount they spend on rent, and nearly 1 in 10 have sold or pawned personal items to be able to afford rent, new polling reveals, as the Renters' Rights
Analysis of the register of interests for the House of Lords by the RRC finds that at least 14 of the 44 peers speaking at the bill’s second reading are landlords of properties in England which will be a
Renter groups have called on the government to do more to tackle out of control rents, as a government survey revealed that over a third of landlords increasing rents on new tenancies did so by at least 15%.
