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Work with affiliates towards achieving the aims of Generation RentThe next Parliament must end the renting crisis
Last night, Boris Johnson won a landslide victory. He must take this opportunity to end the renting crisis.
Read moreWhat's on offer for renters tomorrow?
Tomorrow is polling day! Before you cast your vote, here's a round up of the policies from each party's manifesto on the issues we've been campaigning on since the last election
Smaller parties manifesto round up
We've looked at what the SNP, Plaid Cymru, the DUP and the Brexit Party - parties that are only standing in parts of the UK - have to offer renters.
Three of these parties are only standing in nations where housing issues are devolved, so they understandably have less interest in housing at this election, but there are some issues - like housing benefit - that are decided by Westminster for the whole of the UK.
Read moreConservative Party Manifesto: What can renters expect?
In the final instalment of our manifesto reviews, we take a look at what the Conservative Party has to offer private renters.
Read moreLabour's Manifesto - Real Change for Renters?
Next in our series of manifesto reviews, we delve into the Labour Party’s pledges to assess what they offer for private renters.
Read moreWhat is your vote worth? Renters could make a difference in these seats
2.4 million private renters could miss out on voting at the General Election if they don't register to vote by midnight tomorrow.
Private renters move house more frequently than homeowners, and as a result, just 58% are correctly registered, compared with 91% of homeowners, according to figures by the Electoral Commission. Many renters are on contracts of just 12 months, and private renters are six times more likely to move in a given year than homeowners.
We've worked out which Parliamentary seats could be decided by private renters on 12 December - the seats in orange and brown have more unregistered private renters than the number of votes the last MP won by.
Green Party Manifesto: A Green New Deal for Renting?
Next up is the Green Party’s manifesto. We assess whether the Green’s New Deal for housing helps make renting safe, secure and fair.
Read moreLib Dem Manifesto: Does it deliver for renters?
Over the coming days, we’ll be picking through the parties’ manifestos, and assessing whether the proposed housing policies will help make renting safe, secure and fair. First up: the Liberal Democrats.
Read moreThese are the places you're most at risk of a no-fault eviction
Renters in south east commuter towns and the edges of Greater London are at the highest risk of a no-fault eviction, our analysis of government data has revealed.
The worst place for evictions is the London Borough of Havering where last year 39 in every 1000 private renters were made homeless by landlords selling up, re-letting or evicting to avoid making repairs. And that's just people who sought help from their council - many more will have found a new home, but moved at their own expense.
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Our General Election campaign
Whatever way you look at it - this General Election is important. The next Government will be tackling the big issues of the day like Brexit, crime, protecting our NHS and fixing the housing crisis. At this election Generation Rent is getting stuck in.
As long as immigration is controlled it’s fine (as it allows a government to plan for and implement the additional infrastructure that is required).
The situation we have, as you may recollect, is that the opposite has happened, and as a result we have this housing crisis (amongst other crises).
But yes I do have the interest of low income households at heart, that at least we have in common.
As for councils the Conservatives recently permitted them to access funding for new social housing. Neither Labour run nor Conservative run councils seemed to have leapt at this opportunity and the rate of council housebuilding remains at a trickle.
Councils and housing associations should be the only parties doing his. It’s just a shame they haven’t been able to build the millions of houses needed by our growing population (Partly due to uncontrolled immigration!). You probably need to go on an economics course and study supply and demand.
Right to buy was actually first proposed by Labour. New Labour let house prices rise without any intervention. Labour aren’t exactly not at fault!
Actually it’s the conservative party which has introduced tenant fees ban, fitness for habitation, etc so landlords are more regulated than ever. The real problem though is that councils don’t have the funds or inclination to enforce existing powers!
I watched the Thatcher (Tory) gov during the 1980s, begin to sell off the social housing stock that Labour had commissioned decades earlier (after WW2); WE have recently experienced – and shall continue to experience – the worst AUSTERITY programme since the BANKS crashed the world economy 2008 and to compound this, during the Tories ideological programme of the last decade; Private Landlords have not been properly regulated during all this time – the UK now has around 11million renters; IMMIGRANTS? First of all you would need to define what you mean by immigrants: but I have to tell you, that if you were properly informed, you would not be placing immigrants, in the same breath as low pay, social housing and the rest.
The STATE, you refer to is always shrunk back by the Tories, and expanded by Labour: you must decide what it is you would like our country to look like post BREXIT?
And to further nail my colours to the mast, Beth – I voted REMAIN.
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If your property is in a selective licensing area then you can complain to the council who will intervene.
I think that if you have raised a complaint about repairs then a landlord cannot issue a revenge eviction as this invalidates the section 21 eviction notice.
If they threaten or harass you call the police immediately!!
We need to stop attacking private landlords and focus our attention on pressuring the government to increase social housing!
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