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Podcast: Energy Efficiency
Sep 30, 2022

In this episode of the podcast Sophie is joined by Zoe Avison from the Green Alliance to discuss how best to keep your home warm this winter and why insulation and greener, cheaper forms of energy are so important for renters. To find out more about the Green Alliance, visit their website here 



How Street Votes could end our housing heartbreak
Sep 26, 2022

Freddie Poser is Director of PricedOut, the national campaign for affordable house prices

Being a renter can suck, and it seems to get worse every year with higher rents, unfair deposit deductions, no-fault evictions, application letters, and new listings being snapped up in mere seconds. What can we do? One path is to reform the rental market to give tenants more protections. Another, complementary, path is to improve the renters’ bargaining power by increasing the supply of properties on the market. But raising supply has been politically very difficult, with many reform efforts foundering on the rocks of public opposition. Street votes are different. While it might not change the world tomorrow, it might just deliver supply where other efforts have failed.



Podcast: Home Not Hotels
Sep 08, 2022

In this episode of the podcast, Sophie is joined by Rachael Maskell, the MP for York Central, Dr Tom Simcock Research Fellow & Research Manager of the Healthy Housing Initiative at the University of Huddersfield and Dan Wilson Craw, Deputy Director of Generation Rent to discuss holiday lets, their impact on the private rented sector and what potential solutions their are to mitigate their impact on local housing.

If you would like to find out more about our work on holiday lets you can read our report here and sign our holiday lets petition here. 

If you have a story you would like to share on the podcast or want a particular topic covered in a future episode then contact Will at [email protected] to discuss your idea. 

 



45% of private renters face rent hike
Aug 25, 2022

Nearly half of private renters have faced a rent increase in the last year, our latest survey has found, which is why we are calling for the government to impose a rent freeze to fight the cost of living crisis.



"I didn’t feel safe being my full self" - the LGBTQ+ experience of renting
Jun 28, 2022

Pride month is nearly at an end, but that doesn’t mean that issues affecting LGBTQ+ people will suddenly disappear. Discrimination, both explicit and structural, remains an unfortunate reality for non-heterosexual, trans and non-binary people in every facet of day-to-day life.



How well do councils know their local renters?
Jun 23, 2022

Two thirds of private renters are unaware that their local council can help them with certain problems with their landlord, letting agent or home, according to our latest research.



Renters Reform White Paper - our verdict
Jun 16, 2022

After a consultation, a General Election, three Queen’s Speeches and a pandemic, the government’s plans for reform of the rental market are finally here. The commitment to abolish Section 21 that kicked off this process back in 2019 is still the centrepiece of the reforms, but there are wider changes to landlord regulation as well.



The Tenant Fees Act - Three Years On
Jun 01, 2022

Letting agents have now been banned from charging fees at the start of a tenancy for three years.



Your holiday, our home?
May 27, 2022

Wales and South West England saw both the largest increase in holiday home ownership and the largest rise in rents over the course of the pandemic, according to our latest research.



Evictions in Scotland - what do we know?
May 25, 2022

Nearly one third of private landlords who evicted tenants in order to sell the property had failed to sell the home more than a year later, according to our latest research into the Scottish tenancy system.



I can't move out of my miserable home - Maggie's Story
May 20, 2022

Generation Rent supporter Maggie describes what it is like to be stuck in a poor standard home.



Three years later, tenancy reform is still on
May 10, 2022

As a new session of Parliament begins, the government has renewed its commitment to create a fairer rental market. As well as plans to abolish Section 21 no-fault evictions - first announced in 2019, the latest version of the Renters Reform Bill looks likely to introduce a landlord register.


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