Many renters in the private rented sector put up with
unacceptable conditions in their homes because they are too afraid of being
evicted to speak out. That’s according to the HCLG Select Committee. In a
recent report, the Committee called on the government to address a ‘clear power
imbalance’ in parts of the sector. A standout recommendation is a call on the
government to strengthen the Deregulation Act. It focuses on protecting tenants
from a no-fault section 21 eviction for longer than the current six months,
which kicks in only after the local council has served an improvement notice on
the landlord. The committee also calls for protections to be extended to
prevent retaliatory rent increases, and ensure that these protections kick in
as soon as renters make a complain to their landlord, letting agent or local
council. Read more on the Shelter blog.
‘Those two weeks felt how the world should be’: the young single mums who
took on the housing crisis – and won
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When a group of teenage mothers were evicted from their homeless hostel,
Focus E15, they took over a tower block of empty council flats in protest.
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