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An all-party House of Commons committee is calling on Local Housing Allowance to be updated automatically and annually. LHA rates have been...

Almost a million private rented households reliant on Universal Credit experience a shortfall between the benefit payments they receive and the...

A think tank claims that the government will pay landlords in the private sector six times the expected spend on new affordable homes in the five-year period between 2021 and 2026. The New...

The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on migrating away from the emergency rent controls introduced in September 2022 and extended...

An estimated 1.6m private renters are set to receive an uplift to their housing support for 12 months from April 2024,...

Generation Rent says it’s worked out what rent levels will be in two years’ time. The activists say rents will rise 14...

The National Residential Landlords Association wants the government to commit to annual uprating of the Local Housing Allowance. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced...

Campaigning charity Shelter has welcomed the decision by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to unfreeze Local Housing Allowance - but it wants it...

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

A council in Wales is making changes to the system it uses to encourage private landlords to lease their properties to...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has used his Autumn Statement to reveal measures affecting both the rental market and the wider property industry.  The Local Housing Allowance is...

When Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gets to his feet on Wednesday to deliver his Autumn Statement, he should consider offering support to...

Housing Secretary MIchael Gove is reported to be pressing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to increase Local Housing Allowance in next week’s...

Almost 60,000 Londoners in the private rented sector are likely to become homeless over the next six years if the government...

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

Propertymark has set out its stall for next month’s Autumn Statement - and many of the demands are for improvements that...

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

A group of local authorities is asking the government to give individual councils the cash to buy properties off private landlords. London...

A pressure group within the Labour Party wants a future government to provide £15 billion over 10 years to allow half...

Across the country landlords and renters are struggling as mortgage costs soar, tax hikes bite and uncertainty remains about the impact...

The BBC says discussions are underway to extend the Renters Reform Bill to specifically outlaw any rental listing banning families and benefit recipients...

New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...

Landlords are being invited to a free event to find out more about help and incentives on offer to help local...

A series of template letters have been drafted so that landlords can write to MPs about problems caused by the Renters...

Propertymark has told a group of MPs that many benefit recipients are excluded from the private rented sector due to the...

A council is apply to private landlords to help it solve its housing crisis. Peterborough council says it’s looking for family sized...

The government has made no estimate of the number of people unable to meet housing costs due to the freeze on...

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

The normally under-the-radar Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has made an unusually outspoken plea to the government to help landlords. In particular,...

A controversial new report demands that the government uses next month’s Budget to sharply increase tax burdens for landlords. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s...

The government has published the findings of a review into the operation of Right To Rent by private landlords and letting...

A council at the heart of a controversial scheme claims to be “pleased” with the interest shown by private landlords. Leasing Scheme...

As 2025 gradually approaches, the question of how the private rented sector decarbonises and becomes more energy efficient is becoming more...

A think tank says household costs are under more pressure from the cost of living crisis than in the pandemic, with...

A council is attempting to woo landlords to lease their properties for up to 20 years in return for a guaranteed...

The agents’ trade body Propertymark says it wants the Welsh Government to do more to support landlords letting in tourist hotspots. The...

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

Campaigning charity Shelter claims that last month 482,000 private renters were behind on their rent. It also claims that 504,000 people have...

An appeal for private landlords to come forward with vacant, or soon-to-be vacant, properties for rent, has been launched. Accommodation is now...

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

The future of the private rented sector in England has been back under the Westminster spotlight in the last two weeks...

The government has committed to introduce the Renters Reform Bill into Parliament during this session - despite the disarray over policies...

A government department is asking landlords to share their data in a bid to improve services. The Valuation Office Agency says it...

The House of Commons Library provides books, journals and online resources for MPs, MPs' staff and parliamentary staff. Some of this is...

Some 820,000 private rented households in Britain are routinely hit by a shortfall between their housing benefit and their monthly rents...

A London council is relaunching an appeal for private landlords to help house homeless people with mobility issues. Landlords in Camden and...

Activists in Generation Rent have repeated once again their call for a rent freeze and yet another eviction ban.  “Rents have been...

Details have been released of a scheme seeking to encourage private landlords to lease their properties to local councils. The scheme in...

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...

Almost 70 per cent of private tenants in the North East relying on Universal Credit to pay their rent have a...

More than 50 per cent of private tenants who rely on Universal Credit to pay their rent have a shortfall between...

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

Manchester council has launched its own building company - called This City - to construct affordable and market homes to rent. The...

Almost 10 per cent of private landlords letting properties to Universal Credit claimants have experienced at least one tenant having difficulties...

A company that works with private landlords to supply homes to ease London councils’ homeless issues, has won funds to secure...

High profile MP Caroline Lucas has told a newspaper that the government turns a blind eye to bad landlords. “This government, like previous...

Landlords selling up or converting to short lets have led to a growing housing crisis, according to a trade body of...

The relationship between the overwhelming number of good landlords and local authorities tends to be limited or possibly non-existent. With the far...

This week’s Budget saw the Chancellor loosen the Treasury’s purse strings in a number of areas.  Yet this was a quiet Autumn...

Over 150,000 households in Britain are in ‘exempt’ accommodation, a rental sector which some say is “dangerously under-regulated.” ‘Exempt accommodation’ is intended...

Coventry council is the latest to appeal to private landlords to help it meet its housing obligations. It wants to sign up...

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

A stinging attack on Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been made by the National Residential Landlords Association. The trade body has produced a...

The National Residential Landlords Association has repeated its backing for upfront cash payments and rent guarantees. A new study has found that...

The head of an agency is urging landlords to “embrace” tenants on housing benefits, instead of seeking to avoid them. Mish Liyanage,...

A lettings agency is telling landlords to take more tenants claiming housing benefits. The agency in question says it’s wrong that some...

Labour MP Stephen Timms has asked Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick to commit to five measures to tighten controls on the private...

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

Landlords are today backing a call by the Resolution Foundation think tank for tenant hardship loans for renters impacted by the...

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

Activists from Shelter and Generation Rent have led the charge for a renewed eviction ban in the light of the latest...

The government has rejected a call for landlords to have powers to evict tenants who fall 14 days into arrears. Property investor...

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

A YMCA chief executive claims the proliferation of HMOs may be endangering private tenants’ health by encouraging overcrowding and undersized-rooms. Alan Fraser,...

Landlords have sharply criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for cutting the amount tenants relying on benefits will be able to claim to...

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

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

An analysis of the private rental sector by the London School of Economics suggests there could be three times the current...

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

The ‘No DSS’ issue has been effectively settled by a landmark court case, but a new document for MPs says ‘affordability...

Labour wants to see a tenant loans scheme in England similar to one now operating in Wales. Easington Labour MP Grahame Morris...

West Lothian Council is appealing to buy-to-let landlords to provide private let accommodation as a means of accommodating those on the...

The government’s decision not to remove the cap on Universal Credit for all claimants and increase housing benefit to cover local...

Industry leaders are calling on the government to provide urgent support for young people living in private rented housing.  As the chancellor...

The government is being urged to increase housing benefits and remove the benefit cap to help support more tenants, especially in...

The government last week announced that homeowners struggling to pay their mortgage due to coronavirus will be able to extend their...

MPs on parliament’s Housing, Communities and Local Government have called for greater financial support to be provided to all tenants during...

Labour is calling on the government to unveil new measures to protect renters beyond June after the Bank of England warned...

The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) supports calls for a package of measures from the government to support tenants affected by...

Lendlord has launched a range of new tools to help landlords manage their buy-to-let portfolios during the coronavirus pandemic. The online portfolio...

The full rollout of universal credit, the government's flagship welfare reform, has been delayed yet again - until 2024.  The system was...

Renters have higher levels of harmful stress levels than homeowners, according to new research.  A survey of almost 4,000 renters by Shelter...

There has been a notable drop in the number of private landlords letting to tenants in receipt of local housing allowance...

Around 900,000 people across the UK could see their housing benefit payments increase by around £120 a year from April after...

Labour has launched its general election manifesto, promising to “transform” the UK with what some commentators view as the most ambitious...

The Liberal Democrats have launched their 2019 election manifesto, which sets out the polices the party aims to introduce should it...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has compiled a manifesto that it hopes all political parties will take note of ahead of...

Three-quarters of people across the UK believe housing benefit should increase in line with rents to help combat homelessness, new research...

The government is being urged to restore the levels of housing benefit, otherwise known as Local Housing Allowance (LHA), so they...