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UK homelessness rises

“The single biggest and most urgent crisis we face”

16 August, 20180 Comments
Boris Johnson’s most recent article for The Telegraph hits out at previous labour governments for failing to build enough houses for the UK population and leaving the youth of today facing huge obstacles just to get onto the housing ladder. The “single biggest and most urgent crisis we face” is that we’re stuck in a
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40,000 private renting tenants abducted by aliens in 2015…

11 August, 20161 Comments
Britain’s Benefit Tenants returned last night for a new series on Channel 4, with yet more tales from the sharp end of the benefits system. With council housing stock shrinking and home ownership gradually decreasing, more tenants than ever before are finding themselves on benefits. So with many falling into rent arrears, agencies specialising in housing benefits
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Everything You Need To Know About South Gloucestershire’s ‘Self Build Register’

21 July, 20160 Comments
For many, building their own home could be a lifelong dream that they never get to fulfil. But, for those living in South Gloucestershire, that dream could become a reality much sooner than expected… Due to the fact it is so hard for the youth of today to get on to the property ladder, people
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Compensation for evicted tenants?

29 January, 20160 Comments
The campaign group Generation Rent is now calling for tenants who have been served notice to leave a property to be compensated by landlords. Results from a survey carried out by BMG Research found that 27% of current and past private tenants had been evicted by a landlord who wanted to sell, refurbish or change
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Generation Rent awarded £45k grant for London campaign

18 August, 20150 Comments
It has been announced today that Generation Rent; a campaign group which campaigns for professionally managed, secure, decent and affordable private rented homes, has been awarded a £45,500 grant from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd to fund its London campaign for rent controls ahead of the Greater London elections in 2016. The Joseph Rowntree
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Cost of renting vs buying

Generation Rent accuses landlords of having their rental income bolstered by £26.7bn in taxpayers’ money 

24 February, 20150 Comments
Generation Rent has claimed that landlords are benefitting from subsidies worth the equivalent of £1,000 for each household in the UK. The campaign group has accused landlords of having their rental incomes bolstered by tax breaks and housing benefits by as much as £26.7bn a year- that’s £1,011 each for England’s 26.4m households. The group’s
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Police turn down networking as a way of stopping anti-social behaviour

09 May, 20140 Comments
IT IS OFFICIAL! After a long awaited meeting with the Avon and Somerset Police Force and the Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner, LandlordReferencing.co.uk has received confirmation today from Sue Mountstevens via email that she “does not feel that Landlord Referencing is something that she can lend her support to” because she is “concerned
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Shadow Housing Minister says tenants are not an agents client

09 May, 20140 Comments
Following a popular post within the LRS Community forum yesterday an LRS member has had a reply from the Shadow Housing Minister Emma Reynolds via Twitter. The original post was: “Labour Party write open letter to letting agents” – Click to read. Landlords, Letting Agents and Tenants, please share your views on this latest comment
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Should private landlords be subject to greater regulation?

29 April, 20140 Comments
As the private rented sector continues to grow, so do calls for regulation. Today The Guardian have asked a tenants group and the landlord lobby for their thoughts; click here to view original source. Alex Hilton, director of Generation Rent, says that: “… A national register of landlords would help end the worst abuses. …
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