Mayor of London backs indefinite tenancies
At the Labour party conference this week, delegates adopted a motion to (among other things) “Help private renters with an end to ‚Äòno fault’ evictions, controls on rents and new minimum standards, including three year tenancies as standard.”
The BBC reported on this commitment, but beyond the wording of this motion and John Healey’s speech, we haven’t had any more detail of what this would entail.
Luckily, Sadiq Khan has obliged. While the Mayor of London is not a member of the Shadow Cabinet, last week’s publication of his response to the government’s consultation on longer tenancies revealed that he is calling for much the same thing, plus some more idea of what it might look like in practice.