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Generation Rent and London Mayor Sadiq Khan have jointly slammed landlords who do not improve the EPCs of their private rental...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and the leader of activist group Generation Rent have teamed up for an anti-damp and mouldy...

Many have welcomed the move by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to unfreeze the Local Housing Allowance - but some tenant activists say...

The two most aggressively pro-tenant activist bodies have accused landlords without mortgages of “cashing in.” According to a poll of more than...

The growth of private renting in the past decade has given renters more political power, an activist group claims. Generation Rent’s analysis...

Minority ethnic people are more likely to be ignored when searching for private rental homes, a pressure group claims. Generation Rent claims...

Claims on social media by a leader of the Renters Reform Coalition - who is also a contributor to a Labour-supporting website...

A pressure group claims the threat of being evicted makes tenants age more quickly.  Generation Rent claims there is a study by...

A collection of pressure groups, fronted by Generation Rent, wants all private rental homes going on sale to be offered first...

There’s been a strong personal attack on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak by anti-landlord activists over the subject of energy efficiency. The Generation...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove says he “cannot guarantee” that the Rental Reform Bill will get its Second Reading immediately after Parliament...

Rental activists are up in arms because Housing Secretary Michael Gove failed to mention the Renters Reform Bill during his keynote...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given Conservative conference delegates an update on the Renters Reform Bill. Contrary to speculation, mostly from anti-landlord...

The hardline activist group Acorn - part of the Renters Reform Coalition involving Generation Rent - now claims that some 600,000...

The rise of ‘Generation Rent’ is well documented, along with the spiralling rent payments they are facing during a tightening cost...

Activists in the Generation Rent group are running what they call Renters’ Rights Awareness Week in the second half of October.   “Whether...

While many sections of the property industry welcome the change of tone in Rishi Sunak’s approach to green issues, one group...

The Generation Rent activist group is urging its supporters to email MPs to protest about delays in the parliamentary progress of...

A charity claims that apparent delays to the Renters Reform Bill, which has yet to get a Second Reading in the...

Activists in the Generation Rent campaign are complaining that the Renters Reform Bill hasn’t been placed ahead of other Parliamentary business...

The Generation Rent group of activists says Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey is on their side about Section 21 evictions. Bailey...

Over a third of private landlords would sell properties if rent controls were introduced in their area, according to a trade...

The Generation Rent campaign has launched a petition on its website to give councils power to license holiday lets.  The campaign claims...

The Generation Rent group of activists has written an open letter to mortgage firm chief executives asking for special dispensation for...

Generation Rent says Shelter has it right when it complains about evictions in the private rental sector. Earlier this week Shelter claimed...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and the Labour-supporting leader of the Generation Rent pressure group have starred in a lengthy social...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and activist group Generation Rent have issued a joint appeal for rent controls in the capital. Khan’s...

Activist group Generation Rent is now demanding a change to the Renters Reform Bill to help tenants with energy bills. The group...

Whereas it’s likely that every single landlord has seen higher costs over the past year, two out of five tenants have...

New research has uncovered what the organisations behind it call “shocking discrimination towards migrant communities” while they try to find places...

Activist group Generation Rent - which has demanded rent freezes, eviction bans and cash hand-outs to help tenants move now wants...

The head of the tenants’ activist group Generation Rent started work in the role of director in mid-June - and has...

After genteel protests from the Generation Rent ginger group and more pro-active protests from the Acorn group of rental activists, tomorrow...

A statement from activist group Generation Rent suggests there’s a connection between Section 21 and the period of time people rent...

A pressure group is calling on the government to introduce in-tenancy restrictions on how much rents can be raised, and claims...

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

Activists who at one time appeared broadly happy with the pro-tenant Renters Reform Bill now appear to have changed their mind. Over...

The Generation Rent activist group claims holiday homes are eroding the supply of available properties in key tourist areas.  It claims 80...

The Generation Rent campaign has given its support to a call by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to be given powers to...

Activists who until last week were focussing their campaigning on demanding the publication of the Renters Reform Bill have now announced...

In a surprise move, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the stand-in leader of activist group Generation Rent a prime role...

Research conducted by activist group Generation Rent is claiming “shocking discrimination towards minority ethnic communities while navigating the private rental market.” The...

2023 could be a landmark year for the private rented sector if Michael Gove succeeds in his pursuit of reforming the...

Renters are being offered a 100 per cent mortgage by the Skipton Building Society - the first time such a product...

Labour will create a national landlord register to protect tenants from what the party calls “unscrupulous property owners.: Party leader Sir Kier...

Activist group Generation Rent has thrown its weight behind the initiative by Home Secretary Suella Braverman to clampdown on so-called ‘sex...

Both the Generation Rent activist group and London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan have issued a joint attack on private rental sector...

The Generation Rent activist group says the government’s proposed clampdown on short let landlords does not go far enough. At the end...

The Generation Rent campaign has criticised the current government for failing to increase energy efficiency standards in the private rental sector. A...

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

The government will this week announce a new consultation on private rental sector energy efficiency - in particular, insulation. This will be...

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...

A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...

The Generation Rent group of activists is promoting a petition calling for private landlords to pay damages to tenants in some...

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

The private rented sector has an important economic and social role to play across the country, according to a new report...

The Generation Rent campaign group is advertising for a new director - the role held in recent years by Alicia Kennedy,...

There are many misconceptions about the private rented sector, but a common one I hear is that it is the tenure...

The long-awaited Renters Reform Bill did not even warrant a mention in a key speech yesterday by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak...

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...

BBC Three is to show a TV programme about tenants facing eviction after being served with Section 21s. It’s an independent production...

The government is considering making home owners apply for planning consent if they wish to use a property for holiday lets. The...

Activist group Generation Rent has started a petition calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to freeze private rents this winter. As part...

Despite a string of pledges on rental sector reform delivered in recent days by government ministers, including Housing Secretary Michael Gove,...

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...

One of the leaders of campaign group Generation Rent is claiming that some landlords “force” tenants out using Section 21 powers. Dan...

Activists got reassurance from Boris Johnson and Liz Truss in the past, and have a supportive politician in the form of...

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

A Labour MP has written to the Housing Secretary demanding a timetable for the implementation of rental reform. Catherine West, MP for...

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 latest U-turn on Section 21 evictions powers - which it now says WILL be abolished, following earlier leaks that...

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...

As I write this, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has gone back on his mini budget plan to abolish the 45p...

The mini-Budget was always billed as a tax-cutting, growth-generating affair - and so it proved - but Labour has criticised it...

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

MPs are to have another opportunity to debate possible restrictions on the number of so-called party houses let from AirBnb and...

Both Shelter and Generation Rent have paused their campaigning on social media for the duration of national mourning for The Queen. A...

* Angels Media and Landlord Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - Agents are warning that...

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...

Campaign group Generation Rent is staging a Renters’ Rights Awareness Week from September 17 to 22 inclusive. “Whether you’re new to renting,...

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

Generation Rent is promoting another rent freeze campaign. In a short series of tweets, and in relation to the predicted energy price...

A warning has been issued that anyone wanting a mortgage in future may put their credit rating at risk if they...

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

Generation Rent, which typically attacks all landlords and especially those involved in buy to let, has instead focussed its latest social...

The National Residential Landlords Association has identified five key areas for its campaigning in the short term, as the Conservatives elect...

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...

The Generation Rent group of activists says it has concerns over the broad proposals to allow landlords to charge for additional...

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