Happy Renters Rights Day!
Today is the biggest day in Generation Rent’s 12 year history: Section 21 is no more and the biggest reforms to renting in nearly 40 years have come into force. […]
“Disgraceful”: Generation Rent responds to Reform UK plans to repeal tenancy reforms (PRESS RELEASE)
Policy would be “a gift to unscrupulous landlords” Generation Rent has slammed Reform UK’s latest policy to scrap the Renters’ Rights Act if they form the government at the next […]
Government announces date of when Section 21 evictions will be abolished (PRESS RELEASE)
The government has today announced that the Renters’ Rights Act will come into force on 1st May 2026. The new law received Royal Assent on 27th October, with the government […]
Older renters struggling with affordability, insecurity, and lack of agency
The demographics of renters has changed so much over the last decade that we could now pluralise our name to Generations Rent. We’re very much conscious of the trend of older people privately renting, which will continue for the foreseeable future, so we were pleased to be invited to speak at Age UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on ageing and older people which is holding an inquiry into older people’s housing. This session focused specifically on older tenants in the private rented sector and how housing impacts their physical, mental and social wellbeing.
Generation Rent’s 2019 survey of private renters has just closed, so we crunched the responses and pulled out some findings specifically relating to older renters to share at the event. We received over a thousand survey responses in total, and 32% of responses were from tenants aged 55 or older, with 17.5% aged 65 or over.