Sentences with phrase «private renting»

Other changes are also being pushed through, including a penalty for under - occupied homes and reductions in the rent paid for private rented sector claimants.

Forty - nine per cent of people in private rented housing and 66 % in social housing confirmed they were in that category.

One option would be to extend existing regulations on minimum energy efficiency requirements for private rented accommodation.

This is despite the fact that private rented housing is more expensive, less secure, and in worse condition than social housing.

Firstly, there must be an immediate impact assessment on how the bedroom tax affects vulnerable tenants in both social and private rented housing.

Corbyn suggests that Labour's 2015 manifesto was consistent with many of the principles he holds dear: «I absolutely agreed with the stuff on private rented sector but think he should have gone further including rent regulation.

Londoners living in private rented homes will save hundreds of pounds a year, as well has benefiting from minimum standards for accommodation, that starts to root out the appalling conditions in which people on low incomes are forced to live.

Councils fear this would increase housing waiting lists and push more people into the more expensive private rented sector.»

Among those who live in private rented accommodation, just 44 % are not registered, against 13 % who occupy homes being bought on a mortgage.

So Labour will, as Teresa Pearce said, build over a million new homes at least half of them council houses and we will control private rents, so we can give every British family that basic human right - a decent home.

[W] hile there is considerable evidence for the proposition that activist shareholders can profit through private rent seeking, there is little evidence that activism has benefits for investors as a class.

He added there would be an emphasis on longer tenancies as part of a «more regulated» private rented system under Labour.

Residential Tenancies Board The Residential Tenancies Board maintains a register of private rented tenancies and housing association tenancies and provides a dispute resolution service.

We have found that rather than targeting undocumented migrants, most of whom are not in the normal private rented sector, it in fact causes discrimination against anyone who is not British, or can't show they have a British passport.

At the housing launch, Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg will also promise new «garden towns», more flats above shops and an expanded private rented sector.

Housing is clearly now a priority for the party — as an NPF rep for members in London (where there is a huge shortage of affordable housing of all tenure and a large, poorly regulated private rented sector) this is very welcome indeed.

The combined worry of cuts to housing benefit and the slashing of the affordable house building subsidy, coupled with the absence of a long term strategy, will be devastating for the housing aspirations of thousands of young people consigned to increasing costs and bringing up their future families in an insecure private rented sector.»

Pledged to introduce controls on private rents if elected, condemning «forced gentrification and social cleansing».

Private renting fell steadily in the UK during most of the 20th century — in inverse proportion to the rise of council housing — and settled at around eight per cent.

UK private renting has doubled in the last decade and is fast approaching US levels of 30 per cent, while social housing has fallen to 16 per cent, of which council homes make up only half.

The Labour party largely stuck with a minimal approach to the regulation of private renting after Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007.

Politicians have only started to wake up to the implications of a larger private rented sector, on the economy, on the welfare bill or on the chances of their offspring giving them grandchildren.

Create a more streamlined, clearer to understand tenancy system that is fit for the modern private rented sector.

Dangling the promise of wealth - giving homeownership in front of those paying through the nose for unstable private rented homes may not look so smart in a few years time.

In January 2006 the Government published a welfare reform Green Paper entitled «A New Deal for Welfare: Empowering People to Work» which included further proposals for reforming Housing Benefit, in particular rolling out an adjusted version of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to the deregulated private rented sector.

Chief executive Adam Sampson said: «The government must not lose sight of the fact that immediate triggers for homelessness - such as a row - can often be worsened by deeper problems such as overcrowding, sky high private rents or punitive restrictions on housing benefit for young people.

Evictions from private rented accommodation in London doubled in the year to 2016.

Ultimately, Labour's enthusiasm for rent controls is misplaced, and their focus on replacing private rented housing with social housing should be a lower priority than simply building more homes.

Ms Rugg added: «Many people experience renting privately at some point in their lives, but private renting as a sector isn't well understood.

At the moment only private rented properties with solid fuel appliances must be fitted with CO alarms, under the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/1693).

Of the 270 stations on London's Underground network only 15 are in areas where private renting can be considered genuinely affordable.

Our research has shown that these Starter Homes will too often only be «affordable» for higher earners, not the millions of people working hard for an average wage who will be left stuck in expensive private renting.»

A new standards watchdog has to monitor the condition of private rented property because so much of it is in «poor condition and is poorly managed», according to the Law Commission.

Resolving disputes between landlords and tenants The Residential Tenancies Board provides a dispute resolution service for landlords and tenants in private rented accommodation and housing association tenancies.

On the other hand, the Labour Party has to acknowledge that it introduced a bedroom tax for private rented houses when it was last in government.

I also served on 13 Bill Committees and spearheaded new legislation on private rented accommodation and licensing.

and impose «proper standards» for health and safety and energy efficiency on private rented properties.

According to the study 43 % of renting families say they expect to continue living in rented homes for the next ten years, despite 22 % saying they would not like to raise children in private rented homes.

The polls show overwhelming support for Labour's policies on, say, an energy price freeze or controlling private rents.

It also considers changes in benefits and tax credits, insecurity in private rented housing and how the stress of trying to keep on top of finances is emotionally draining and often causes parents to prioritise meeting their children's needs and sacrifice their own.

I talked to my local authority yesterday and not only do they have no properties at all, but we have a huge waiting list for social housing, and the private rented sector is running incredibly hot as well, so where are these people to go?

In his own constituency of Aldershot, Mr Howarth said that there would be very little or no room at all for refugees, with large waiting lists for social housing and the private rented sector also in high demand.

I actually think we could learn from Germany, they have a lot more social housing and private rent isn't such an issue because the social housing keeps the prices down.