Sentences with phrase «private renters»

Improving the supply and quality of other housing options would help reduce the desperate desire to buy: that means a better offer for private renters and more truly affordable housing.

If so, there's a free scheme which millions of private renters can use to make paying rent boost their credit rating.

Roughly 95 per cent of those dollars assisted homeowners; private renters accounted for the remaining five per cent.

All political parties will have noted «the massive swing to Labour among private renters» at the 2017 general election.

Private renters already tend to be the young and those on the lowest incomes, who already face financial insecurity.

«There are now 11 million private renters in England, and as housing costs keep rising, more and more people are struggling to scrape together the deposit needed to rent a home,» said Campbell Robb, Shelter chief executive.

She was one of the few candidates in the race to rent rather than own her home and made private renters» rights a centrepiece of her campaign.

New Tory policy undermines the welfare state, alienates private renters and contradicts previous Conservative messages.

I support private renters, estate residents and campaigns and communities across London, and chair the Housing Committee in the London Assembly.

«This is a direct result of decisions made by Conservative ministers: a steep drop in investment for affordable homes, crude cuts to housing benefit, reduced funding for homelessness services and a refusal to help private renters.»

If the government is serious about recognizing the changing shape of the housing market — in which private renters now make up the second largest tenure, one that is growing all the time — then it needs to ensure that BTR is able to live up to its full potential and contribute to a future where the housing needs of all UK residents are met, not just a few.

This suggests that either more support or better protection is needed for families to avoid unwanted or frequent house moves, especially for low - income families and private renters who are at particular risk of moving.

The strategy aims, in part through the Private Rented Housing (Scotland) Bill, to create a more focused regulatory system for the private renting sector, more flexibility and stability and better quality housing and tenancy management for private renters while expanding this housing sector.

The fact that we ran into it three times last year for private renters tells me that they have some reason they don't want to take on that liability (personal experience perhaps).

Meanwhile estate agents warned of prices falling by # 2,300 (# 7,500 in London), property investors began including brexit clauses in commercial deals, letting agents saw the prospect of rents falling as private renters returned to the EU, and the commercial property sector predicted a loss in demand if companies relocated to other parts of the EU.

«Meanwhile, for the millions of private renters for whom home ownership is a distant prospect, the Chancellor has announced a consultation on removing barriers to longer tenancies.

According to the survey, half of EHOs believe that the conditions for private renters are set to deteriorate next year, citing examples of landlords renting out properties with absolutely no basic amenities, or with serious hazards for the health and safety of tenants.

Mr Shapps» shadow, John Healey said: «Shelter's research shows the appalling problems faced by many of our eight million private renters.

Despite a generation of minimal regulation, rents set by the market, and a customer base which has doubled in size, private renters are not seeing the benefits that free market is supposed to offer.

By 2025, more than half of under - 40s will be private renters — 25 % of the wider population.

Generation Rent is the only organisation that represents the country's private renters, and has been campaigning for 18 months to bring about the changes that are needed.

Without a voice for private renters, politicians will sleepwalk into a demographic and economic disaster — with one, we have a chance to achieve the sustainable reforms needed.

I signed a lease with Company B. Company B put me in an apartment complex which is owned by Company C. Company A does not pay for renter's insurance, and I did not pay for private renter's insurance.

Families most likely to move, and move more frequently, include those with a younger mother, private renters and those in «other» 13 accommodation.

Families most likely to experience moving, and moving more frequently, include those with a younger mother and private renters.

Our research has shown that a substantial proportion of children experience a house move in the first five years of their lives, that private renters are particularly likely to move and that house moves are associated with subsequent income poverty and poor maternal mental health.