The new director of Generation Rent, Ben Twomey, takes over from Baroness Alicia Kennedy this morning. A statement announcing his appointment earlier...
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![Labour activist appointed as director of Generation Rent](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
The new director of Generation Rent is Ben Twomey, who takes over from Baroness Alicia Kennedy on June 14. A statement from...
29 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Anti-landlord campaigner calls for Minister for Refugees](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
The Baroness who leads the Generation Rent campaign is now calling for a Minister for Refugees. Baroness Alicia Kennedy makes the call...
17 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Baroness angry over Hunt’s ‘nothing for renters’ Budget](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/EvictionNotice-400x310.png)
Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the outgoing director of Generation Rent, is angry with Jeremy Hunt. The Baroness claims “the cost of living crisis...
16 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent says tenants afraid to report damp and mould](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate-Agent-400x310.png)
Activist group Generation Rent is demanding that the government tighten regulations on damp and mould - and is tying this to...
15 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent claims landlords “silence” tenants in mouldy flats](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Inspection_1-400x310.png)
Activist group Generation Rent has accused landlords of “silencing” private tenants who live in flats hit with damp and mould. The claim...
03 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![New Generation Rent boss to be chosen this month](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RightToRent1-400x310.png)
Interviews for the post of director of Generation Rent are scheduled to be held this month. The most recent holder of the...
03 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents push landlords into hiking rents, claim activists](/upload/images/Logos/generation-rent400x310.png)
Activist groups say landlords are being pressured by their letting agents into increasing rents. Generation Rent, led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, and...
29 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Baroness accuses landlords of having tenants over a barrel](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Half of private renters have faced a rent increase in the last year, it’s claimed. Activists in Generation Rent claims of those...
21 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![One in nine private rental homes are damp, claim activists](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/UnhappyTenants-400x310.png)
The Generation Rent campaign group says the latest English Housing Survey shows that 23 per cent of private rented homes fail...
19 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent backs Labour bid to regulate Airbnb and Co](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
Activist group Generation Rent says it’s not convinced about government proposals to increase regulation of holiday lets and short lets -...
07 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent resuscitates sex-for-rent threat](/upload/images/Logos/generation-rent400x310.png)
Generation Rent has returned to the threat of rent-for-sex as it claims 200,000 female tenants could be offered discounted rent in...
06 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![“No private renter is safe” claims Generation Rent leader](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageCalculated_400x310.png)
The leader of the Generation Rent activist group says that the shortage of homes to rent means no private sector tenant...
18 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Housing Benefit Bombshell - will freeze lead to soaring arrears?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentalYields-400x310.png)
The freezing of Housing Benefit at 2020 levels, announced in the small print accompanying the Autumn Statement yesterday, risks leading to...
18 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists welcome 'friend' Michael Gove into housing hot seat](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove-400x310.jpg)
Generation Rent, the activist group led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has given a warm welcome to the return of Michael Gove...
26 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![“We’ll train people to resist evictions” says Renters Reform group](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/Protest-400x310.png)
One of the many activist groups in the so-called Renters’ Reform Coalition has pledged to “train people across the country to...
13 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Angry activists accuse Truss of Section 21 betrayal](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310.png)
The government’s expected U-turn on the future of Section 21 eviction powers has provoked an explosion of anger from Generation Rent...
12 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 Bombshell - it may NOT be scrapped after all](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310%20(1).png)
The government may be changing its mind on scrapping Section 21 eviction powers according to a bombshell story in The Times. Outlining what...
11 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists to “tell renters their rights” next month](/upload/images/library/LoudSpeaker-1-400x310.jpg)
Generation Rent, the activist group led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, is staging a Renters Rights Awareness week in October. It was originally...
20 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![It’s Landlords versus Generation Rent in Parliament today](/upload/images/library/StudentsInHome2-695x395.png)
The National Residential Landlords Association and the Generation Rent activist group both give evidence today to MPs as they begin a...
05 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Millions of tenants may fall into arrears, claims Generation Rent chief](/upload/images/library/Money%20House.jpg)
Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent group, is warning that millions of tenants may not be able to pay...
26 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Evictions - Activist Baroness demands rent freeze, says worse to come](/upload/images/library/eviction-image400x310.png)
New government figures show 3,405 households in the private rented sector were evicted by bailiffs in England between April and June this year...
15 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent job advertised on ‘working for an MP’ website](/upload/images/library/RentalMarketImage-1-400x310.jpg)
A job at the Generation Rent campaign group is being advertised on a site dedicated to jobs working for MPs. The post...
09 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Landlords slammed for discriminating on grounds of sexual orientation](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/PrideFlag-400x310.png)
An activist group that campaigns against landlords has accused some of discriminating against tenants on the ground of their sexual orientation. Baroness...
30 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists use ‘Tenant Charter’ bid to win over local councils](/upload/images/library/MillennialTenants-Tablet-400x310.jpg)
The Baroness leading a renters’ pressure group wants to work with councils to push tenants’ rights. Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of Generation...
27 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists' Victory? What campaigners think of the White Paper](/upload/images/library/GovernmentImage-400x310.jpg)
One of the highest profile advocates of widespread reform in the private rental sector has been Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of...
18 June 2022
From: Rental Reform
![Sunak’s energy support package not enough for Generation Rent](/upload/images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Can_you_get_a_mortgage_with_an_IVA_featured.jpg)
The support package to help combat soaring fuel bills and the cost of living crisis - introduced at the end of...
30 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent accuses landlords of failing to sell after evictions](/upload/images/library/RisingRents-400x310.jpg)
The Baroness leading the Generation Rent campaign group is accusing many landlords of failing to sell - despite having said they...
26 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Evictions running ahead of official figure - activist claim](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/agent_and_homes_360x280.png)
Activists claim that the number of evictions using Section 21 is actually in excess of the reported by government. Ministry of Justice...
23 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Landlords’ critics rejoice as government caves in to their demands](/upload/images/library/HappyLandlord-400x310.jpg)
Activists have expressed their delight that the government has “listed to the voice of renters” in its provisions for widespread reform...
11 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists ask Boris Johnson to begin rental reform process tomorrow](/upload/images/library/BorisJohnson-4-400x310.jpg)
Activists from pressure groups and London-focussed tenants’ bodies have handed in a letter to 10 Downing Street asking the Prime Minister...
09 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![EPCs - Battling Baroness slams landlords, councils and government](/upload/images/library/EPCRating-400x310.png)
The latest attack on landlords by Generation Rent director Baroness Alicia Kennedy concerns insulation and household warmth. She claims a quarter of...
04 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Ban evictions and clear tenant arrears with public cash - latest demands](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/EvictionNotice-400x310-min.jpeg)
Activists in the Generation Rent group have made seven demands on government including a rent freeze, the clearing of tenants’ arrears,...
29 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent activists demand national rent freeze](/upload/images/Logos/generation-rent400x310.png)
Generation Rent is calling for a national rent freeze in the private sector for an unspecified period “for the duration of...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Sunak stacking economy against tenants, says campaigning Baroness](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/RishiSunak-400x310.jpg)
The leader of the Generation Rent campaign group has accused Chancellor Rishi Sunak of “stacking the economy against private renters who...
25 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour Mayor and ex-Labour Baroness demand rent freeze](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/SadiqKhan-400x310.png)
A Labour Mayor and a former Labour baroness have teamed up to call for rent freezes in London, claiming they slash...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![National Landlord Register could lead to tax clampdown, say activists](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Tax-400x310.png)
The Generation Rent activist group has repeated its call for a landlord register in England, saying it could mean more tax...
26 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![£65m for tenant arrears - but it’s not enough for Generation Rent](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/PayingBills-400x310.jpg)
The activist group Generation Rent says the £65m package announced by the government over the weekend is not enough and must...
25 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![More cash for tenants - Shelter and Generation Rent set out demands](/upload/images/library/UpsetCouple-400x310.png)
Shelter and Generation Rent have separately made a case for more cash help for tenants, claiming the current pandemic and energy...
28 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent steps up pressure for ‘lifetime deposits’](/upload/images/library/GenerationRent-logo400x310.png)
Activists group Generation Rent is urging renters who have renewed their tenancy but not moved since May 2019 to check if...
21 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Gove must give tenants more rights says campaigning Baroness](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove2-400x310.png)
The new Housing Secretary, Michael Gove, must remake the rental sector in a fairer and more stable form. That’s the view of...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent angry over return of normal eviction notice periods](/upload/images/library/GenerationRent-logo400x310.png)
Activists’ group Generation Rent says it’s to lobby MPs on Tuesday next week against the return of normal eviction notice periods...
10 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Activists accuse landlords of tearing apart communities via short lets](/upload/images/library/GenerationRent-logo400x310.png)
The Generation Rent group has renewed its attack on landlords who let properties to holidaymakers rather than long term tenants. The group...
25 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Baroness claims many more “facing” eviction than actually evicted](/upload/images/library/NoteOfEviction.png)
The Baroness leading the campaign group Generation Rent claims the official figure for evictions in the second quarter of this year...
13 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Activists demand another eviction ban until law is changed](/img/default/llt.png)
There’s a new call for all Section 24 evictions to be suspended until the passing of the Rental Reform Act -...
19 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Labour and Generation Rent unite to demand rent controls](/img/default/llt.png)
London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, and the Baroness leading the Generation Rent campaign have called for powers to control rents. Khan claims...
08 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Angry activists ask: Why do businesses have an eviction ban, but not us?](/img/default/llt.png)
Campaign group Generation Rent has issued an angry statement in response to the government’s decision to extend the eviction ban for...
18 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Anti-eviction activists tell renters to check landlord paperwork](/img/default/llt.png)
Activist group Generation Rent are telling tenants to use the slightest documentation error by landlords to avoid eviction. It claims as many...
07 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Activists thank unions ahead of week of tenants’ rights webinars](/img/default/llt.png)
The tenants’ campaign group Generation Rent is planning a week of events to promote renters’ rights later this month. The campaign says...
03 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Landlords can evict tenants for requesting repairs, claims Baroness](/img/default/llt.png)
The Baroness who leads the Generation Rent campaign group says landlords are currently “able to evict tenants just for requesting repairs...
26 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Activist group wants more “engagement” between councils and tenants](/img/default/llt.png)
Tenant activist group Generation Rent says it’s working with five councils to find out more about private renters in those areas. The...
24 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Activists demand mandatory register to root out “criminal landlords”](/img/default/llt.png)
Activists led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy of Generation Rent say the proposed reform of the private rental system must include a...
12 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Baroness urges police to get tough with “criminal landlords”](/img/default/llt.png)
The Generation Rent campaign group has entered the fray for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections which will be held in some...
26 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Not enough! Generation Rent slams latest eviction ban extension](/img/default/llt.png)
Activists in Generation Rent have hit out at the latest extension to the ban on bailiff-enforced evictions. The government has extended this...
12 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Eviction ban set to be central issue in spring local elections](/img/default/llt.png)
Activists are aiming to make the eviction ban a central theme in this spring’s local elections. In early May there are elections...
11 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Baroness and rent union chief demand Budget action on arrears](/img/default/llt.png)
The leader of the Generation Rent campaign group has joined forces with tenant activists to demand the Chancellor gives financial support...
01 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Clear 700,000 private tenants’ arrears, demand Generation Rent](/img/default/llt.png)
Generation Rent campaign activists say 700,000 private tenants on Universal Credit cannot afford to pay their rent. The campaign - led by...
24 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent attacks landlords on Homes Under The Hammer](/img/default/llt.png)
Generation Rent has criticised the aspirations of some landlords who appear on the daytime BBC show Homes Under The Hammer. “The regular...
17 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Eviction ban extension not enough for campaigning Baroness](/img/default/llt.png)
The Baroness leading the pressure group Generation Rent says the extension of the ban on bailiff-enforced evictions does not go far...
15 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Activists demand Covid Rent Debt Fund to wipe out 100% of arrears](/img/default/llt.png)
The Generation Rent campaign wants public cash in a Covid Rent Debt Fund to clear rent arrears for tenants who have run...
03 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tenants shouldn’t be obliged to attend possession hearings - call](/img/default/llt.png)
Activists in a rental reform coalition say court possession hearings should be halted as well as bailiff-led evictions. They say the stress...
11 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rent reform activists hit trouble with recruitment drive](/img/default/llt.png)
Generation Rent, the lobby group that tells the government how it thinks the lettings industry should operate, appears to have a...
05 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Pro-tenant activists recruit campaign staff for 2021 battle](/img/default/llt.png)
Staff are being recruited by a coalition of groups campaigning for widespread restrictions on landlord powers in 2021. Called the Renters Reform...
22 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent wants government to write off Covid arrears](/img/default/llt.png)
The Generation Rent campaign wants the government to write off private renters’ arrears built up during the pandemic. And it has repeated...
18 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent demands more public cash for renting families](/img/default/llt.png)
Activists in Generation Rent claim that a fifth of families in the lettings sector suffer a shortfall between benefits and rent. Using selected data...
16 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Latest two month eviction halt not enough for Generation Rent](/img/default/llt.png)
The government’s announcement at the end of next week that almost no evictions would be possible before January 11 at the...
09 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Stop lockdown evictions now! Generation Rent renews its demand](/img/default/llt.png)
Generation Rent says there should be a reinstatement of the eviction ban immediately, and appears to have been stung into the...
05 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Activists demand furlough-type hand outs to pay tenants’ arrears](/img/default/llt.png)
Generation Rent is calling for a furlough-type scheme aimed at helping tenants. The group says that following news of the four week...
02 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent advising tenants to negotiate lower rents](/img/default/llt.png)
Generation Rent, the pressure group led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, is tweeting advice to tenants on how to negotiate a lower...
28 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Petition for National Landlord Register struggles for signatures](/img/default/llt.png)
A petition created by the Generation Rent group of activists and seeking a national landlord register appears to be struggling to...