Generation Rent, the pressure group funded indirectly by the Nationwide, is threatening to lobby candidates standing for parliament at next year's election to ensure they understand the importance of improving the private rented sector.
The group says that it many constituencies there are many more private renters than people who voted for the winning MP at the last election. We need to use those numbers to push renting up the political agenda says the group.
Generation Rent is campaigning for a landlord register and compulsory letting agent licensing to guarantee standards in the sector and drive out those who fail their tenants it says - a set of objectives roughly similar to those adopted by Labour at its conference in Manchester last week.
The group also wants new minimum standards of decency required to ensure that wherever someone privately rents, they won't be subjected to hazards and disrepair and for the next government to bring in a system to provide permanently affordable private renting.
The group is now asking private rented to register their intention to lobby their MPs by signing an online petition on the Generation Rent website.
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