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The new director of Generation Rent, Ben Twomey, takes over from Baroness Alicia Kennedy this morning. A statement announcing his appointment earlier...

The new director of Generation Rent is Ben Twomey, who takes over from Baroness Alicia Kennedy on June 14. A statement from...

The Baroness who leads the Generation Rent campaign is now calling for a Minister for Refugees. Baroness Alicia Kennedy makes the call...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the outgoing director of Generation Rent, is angry with Jeremy Hunt. The Baroness claims “the cost of living crisis...

Activist group Generation Rent is demanding that the government tighten regulations on damp and mould - and is tying this to...

Activist group Generation Rent has accused landlords of “silencing” private tenants who live in flats hit with damp and mould. The claim...

Interviews for the post of director of Generation Rent are scheduled to be held this month. The most recent holder of the...

Activist groups say landlords are being pressured by their letting agents into increasing rents. Generation Rent, led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, and...

Half of private renters have faced a rent increase in the last year, it’s claimed.  Activists in Generation Rent claims of those...

The Generation Rent campaign group says the latest English Housing Survey shows that 23 per cent of private rented homes fail...

Activist group Generation Rent says it’s not convinced about government proposals to increase regulation of holiday lets and short lets -...

Generation Rent has returned to the threat of rent-for-sex as it claims 200,000 female tenants could be offered discounted rent in...

The leader of the Generation Rent activist group says that the shortage of homes to rent means no private sector tenant...

The freezing of Housing Benefit at 2020 levels, announced in the small print accompanying the Autumn Statement yesterday, risks leading to...

Generation Rent, the activist group led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has given a warm welcome to the return of Michael Gove...

One of the many activist groups in the so-called Renters’ Reform Coalition has pledged to “train people across the country to...

The government’s expected U-turn on the future of Section 21 eviction powers has provoked an explosion of anger from Generation Rent...

The government may be changing its mind on scrapping Section 21 eviction powers according to a bombshell story in The Times. Outlining what...

Generation Rent, the activist group led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, is staging a Renters Rights Awareness week in October. It was originally...

The National Residential Landlords Association and the Generation Rent activist group both give evidence today to MPs as they begin a...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent group, is warning that millions of tenants may not be able to pay...

New government figures show 3,405 households in the private rented sector were evicted by bailiffs in England between April and June this year...

A job at the Generation Rent campaign group is being advertised on a site dedicated to jobs working for MPs. The post...

An activist group that campaigns against landlords has accused some of discriminating against tenants on the ground of their sexual orientation. Baroness...

The Baroness leading a renters’ pressure group wants to work with councils to push tenants’ rights.   Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of Generation...

One of the highest profile advocates of widespread reform in the private rental sector has been Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of...

The support package to help combat soaring fuel bills and the cost of living crisis - introduced at the end of...

The Baroness leading the Generation Rent campaign group is accusing many landlords of failing to sell - despite having said they...

Activists claim that the number of evictions using Section 21 is actually in excess of the reported by government. Ministry of Justice...

Activists have expressed their delight that the government has “listed to the voice of renters” in its provisions for widespread reform...

Activists from pressure groups and London-focussed tenants’ bodies have handed in a letter to 10 Downing Street asking the Prime Minister...

The latest attack on landlords by Generation Rent director Baroness Alicia Kennedy concerns insulation and household warmth. She claims a quarter of...

Activists in the Generation Rent group have made seven demands on government including a rent freeze, the clearing of tenants’ arrears,...

Generation Rent is calling for a national rent freeze in the private sector for an unspecified period “for the duration of...

The leader of the Generation Rent campaign group has accused Chancellor Rishi Sunak of “stacking the economy against private renters who...

A Labour Mayor and a former Labour baroness have teamed up to call for rent freezes in London, claiming they slash...

The Generation Rent activist group has repeated its call for a landlord register in England, saying it could mean more tax...

The activist group Generation Rent says the £65m package announced by the government over the weekend is not enough and must...

Shelter and Generation Rent have separately made a case for more cash help for tenants, claiming the current pandemic and energy...

Activists group Generation Rent is urging renters who have renewed their tenancy but not moved since May 2019 to check if...

The new Housing Secretary, Michael Gove, must remake the rental sector in a fairer and more stable form. That’s the view of...

Activists’ group Generation Rent says it’s to lobby MPs on Tuesday next week against the return of normal eviction notice periods...

The Generation Rent group has renewed its attack on landlords who let properties to holidaymakers rather than long term tenants.  The group...

The Baroness leading the campaign group Generation Rent claims the official figure for evictions in the second quarter of this year...

There’s a new call for all Section 24 evictions to be suspended until the passing of the Rental Reform Act -...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, and the Baroness leading the Generation Rent campaign have called for powers to control rents. Khan claims...

Campaign group Generation Rent has issued an angry statement in response to the government’s decision to extend the eviction ban for...

Activist group Generation Rent are telling tenants to use the slightest documentation error by landlords to avoid eviction. It claims as many...

The tenants’ campaign group Generation Rent is planning a week of events to promote renters’ rights later this month. The campaign says...

The Baroness who leads the Generation Rent campaign group says landlords are currently “able to evict tenants just for requesting repairs...

Tenant activist group Generation Rent says it’s working with five councils to find out more about private renters in those areas. The...

Activists led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy of Generation Rent say the proposed reform of the private rental system must include a...

The Generation Rent campaign group has entered the fray for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections which will be held in some...

Activists in Generation Rent have hit out at the latest extension to the ban on bailiff-enforced evictions.  The government has extended this...

Activists are aiming to make the eviction ban a central theme in this spring’s local elections. In early May there are elections...

The leader of the Generation Rent campaign group has joined forces with tenant activists to demand the Chancellor gives financial support...

Generation Rent campaign activists say 700,000 private tenants on Universal Credit cannot afford to pay their rent. The campaign - led by...

Generation Rent has criticised the aspirations of some landlords who appear on the daytime BBC show Homes Under The Hammer.  “The regular...

The Baroness leading the pressure group Generation Rent says the extension of the ban on bailiff-enforced evictions does not go far...

The Generation Rent campaign wants public cash in a Covid Rent Debt Fund to clear rent arrears for tenants who have run...

Activists in a rental reform coalition say court possession hearings should be halted as well as bailiff-led evictions. They say the stress...

Generation Rent, the lobby group that tells the government how it thinks the lettings industry should operate, appears to have a...

Staff are being recruited by a coalition of groups campaigning for widespread restrictions on landlord powers in 2021. Called the Renters Reform...

The Generation Rent campaign wants the government to write off private renters’ arrears built up during the pandemic. And it has repeated...

Activists in Generation Rent claim that a fifth of families in the lettings sector suffer a shortfall between benefits and rent. Using selected data...

The government’s announcement at the end of next week that almost no evictions would be possible before January 11 at the...

Generation Rent says there should be a reinstatement of the eviction ban immediately, and appears to have been stung into the...

Generation Rent is calling for a furlough-type scheme aimed at helping tenants. The group says that following news of the four week...

Generation Rent, the pressure group led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, is tweeting advice to tenants on how to negotiate a lower...

A petition created by the Generation Rent group of activists and seeking a national landlord register appears to be struggling to...

Generation Rent activists are back on the warpath, this time accusing councils of not doing enough - and sometimes nothing -...