'Rent Controls Could Have Saved London Tenants £2,800'

If the rent control model advocated by a majority of the London Assembly had been brought in, the capital's private tenants would have saved £2,796 in the two years since Boris Johnson's re-election, an assembly member has claimed. The Green Party's Darren Johnson has called for assured shorthold tenancies to be replaced with five-year tenancy agreements, during which time annual rent increases would be capped to provide a "fair compromise between landlords and tenants". Read more on 24dash.