Articles tagged with: renting

When times are tough, we must ensure renters with pets have somewhere to go

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01 Mar 2023 Environment

When times are tough, we must ensure renters with pets have somewhere to go

Battersea’s Pet Friendly Properties campaign is encouraging collaborative solutions to ensure all tenants can access the joys of pet ownership.

First time buyers deserve an attainable dream

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01 Oct 2022 Economy

First time buyers deserve an attainable dream

Life’s long shopping list is full of significant items. Your first car. Maybe your wedding reception. That once in a lifetime holiday. Your children’s education. But none is more emotional, symbolic and downright expensive as buying your first home.

10 Dec 2021 Coronavirus

Generation Rent: The Young Key Workers Locked Out Of Home Ownership

Years of rising prices and pay freezes have kept generation rent off the property ladder. And despite their heroic efforts during the pandemic, low-paid key workers say they now feel abandoned to the vagaries of a ‘shambolic’ housing market.

20 Oct 2021 Communities

Labour Warns Renters Could Be Hit By Higher Fuel Bills With Green Home Plans

A focus on homeowners in the government's new heat pump plan could mean that renters could "bear the brunt" of green housing policies, Labour has warned.

01 Sep 2021 Communities

The Tenant Fees Act is forcing tenants to choose between their pet and a roof over their head

Under the Tenant Fees Act, many landlords opt for blanket "no pets" bans in their contracts. The Act should be amended to allow landlords to stipulate that insurance policies which cover tenants for pet damage is held.

01 Sep 2021 Communities

MPs Pressure Government To Overhaul Pets In Rental Homes Law After 1-in-5 Landlords Ban Animals

Exclusive: More than 30 MPs representing all major parties have signed a letter urging housing secretary Robert Jenrick to amend legislation to enable more tenants to live with pets.

23 Jul 2021 Energy

Earth, Wind and Fire: Can UK Power Hit Net-Zero?

In order to meet our emission goals by 2050, the UK must move away from using coal and gas-fired power to electricity generated from renewables, nuclear power and technologies such as carbon capture. Georgina Bailey looks at what steps the government must take now to stay on the Climate Change Committee’s ‘balanced pathway’ to net-zero.

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21 Apr 2021 Communities

NOAH Launches Campaign to Promote Pet Ownership for Renters

NOAH has launched a campaign ‘Securing the Right to Rent with Pets: Making One Health Housing a Reality’, to help improve access to pets for people living in rented or socially owned housing.

10 Mar 2021 Communities

Covid has highlighted the need for new investment in council housing to tackle overcrowding

For those forced to live, learn and work in one room, the psychological impact of lockdown has been extraordinary. As we build back from this crisis, we must ensure everyone has access to a safe, secure and affordable home - with space to live.

24 Feb 2021 Communities

Covid has exposed the cracks in our broken housing system

Renters are at the sharp end of this crisis, with many spending lockdown in cramped accommodation and in insecure work. We must protect them from eviction loopholes and potentially falling into homelessness.

22 Feb 2021 Communities

The Chancellor must help renters in the budget to prevent mass unemployment and homelessness

We need a targeted financial package to help renters pay off arrears built since the beginning of lockdown and a welfare system that gives them financial security to continue living in their homes.

15 Oct 2020 Communities

Cruel 'no pets' policies on rented accommodation are exacerbating loneliness

Pet owners currently face the reality that their family could be torn apart because most landlords in Britain have unnecessary bans or restrictions on pet ownership. As a nation of animal lovers, how can we allow this situation to continue?

19 Sep 2020 Coronavirus

We must act now to prevent countless lives being destroyed when the eviction ban ends

We need a strategic approach to preventing joblessness and homeless in the Covid-19 battle

17 Aug 2020 Coronavirus

John McDonnell says coronavirus ban on evictions should stay in place for a year

A ban on evictions introduced at the start of the coronavirus pandemic should stay in place for at least another year, Labour’s John McDonnell has said.

Millions of leaseholders to benefit from Law Commission reforms

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21 Jul 2020 Economy

Millions of leaseholders to benefit from Law Commission reforms

The Commission’s reforms will lay the foundations for future home ownership to be freehold and tackle some key issues that existing leaseholders currently face.

10 Jul 2020 Communities

Labour accuse Rishi Sunak of £1.3bn ‘secret giveaway’ to landlords and second home owners

Labour has accused the Chancellor of handing a £1.3bn “bung” to second home owners and landlords.

06 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

Quarter of a million renters could lose their homes when coronavirus eviction ban ends, ministers are warned

Almost a quarter of a million private renters in England could be at risk of eviction when a government ban on the practice comes to an end next month, a major housing charity is warning.

22 May 2020 Coronavirus

Rent crisis: can the private rented sector avoid an eviction "cliff edge"?

Housing charities fear the private rented sector could be heading for an eviction crisis, as the economy enters what could be a long-lasting downturn. Can tenants stay in their homes? Georgina Bailey reports

11 May 2020 Coronavirus

Keir Starmer defends Labour's coronavirus renters' policy amid backlash from party's left

Keir Starmer has defended Labour’s policy on help for renters during the coronavirus crisis amid mounting criticism from MPs and campaigners on the left of the party.

29 Mar 2020 Coronavirus

Labour says landlords should be made to give three-month rent break to tenants squeezed by coronavirus

Tenants struggling with the economic impact of the coronavirus shutdown should be able to stop paying rent for three months, Labour has said.