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The activist group Generation Rent is backing a call by MPs for the government to tighten up proposals to scrap Section...

Activist groups which previously focussed much of their fire on landlords are now attacking letting agents, accusing them of encouraging higher...

The government may be changing its mind on scrapping Section 21 eviction powers according to a bombshell story in The Times. Outlining what...

Activist renters want Liz Truss to follow Scotland’s lead and introduce a rent freeze and eviction ban.  The emergency measures - announced...

Within two hours of Greg Clarke being appointed by Boris Johnson as the new Housing Secretary, the leader of Generation Rent...

An activist group claims that homeless cases arising from Section 21 evictions are now at their highest level since records began...

An activist at the centre of a controversy involving a London letting agent has used a left-wing website to explain how...

The leader of the Generation Rent campaign group has accused Chancellor Rishi Sunak of “stacking the economy against private renters who...

A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the director of Generation Rent, is to be one of the speakers in a debate at the ARLA...

Two recent calls for the introduction of a national mandatory landlord register in England have been rebuffed by agents’ trade body...

Campaign group Generation Rent, led by former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has renewed its call for the scrapping of Section 21...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...

A prominent member of the House of Lords and a rental activist are calling for an immediate suspension of all Section...

The Generation Rent campaign group and Labour are again uniting to argue in favour of rent controls in London. Just last week...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy has accused the government of hypocrisy over its diverging approach to evictions for commercial and residential tenants. On Wednesday...

The activist group Generation Rent is urging tenants to scrutinise the paperwork they get from agents to use against possible eviction.  Failure...

Campaign group Generation Rent has set out a 10-point plan for reform of the private rental sector in favour of tenants. Its...

The head of the tenants’ campaign group Generation Rent has condemned the government as “reckless” for ending the eviction ban on May...

The most vocal campaign group for tenants, Generation Rent, has warned government that renters have already been waiting two years for...

Councils are failing to protect tenants in three out of four cases where they discover rental homes are unsafe, according to...

A group of rental campaign bodies have come together to claim that some 694,000 tenants apparently face eviction when the current...

Acorn, a prominent campaign group targeting letting agency offices for protests, says the latest eviction ban extension doesn't go far enough. While...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector.  “Extending...

An online petition which appears to inaccurately say private tenants can still be evicted “for no reason” has won 30,000 signatures...

Labour says the latest extension to the ban on bailiff-enforced evictions doesn’t go far enough to help tenants. The extension to the...

Activists from a range of pressure groups have reacted angrily to what they call a half-baked eviction ban announced by the...

The Prime Minister has told MPs that the eviction ban effectively in place now but scheduled to expire on January 11...

Generation Rent’s campaign for more public funds for private tenants continues unabated with a call on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase...

The Generation Rent campaign has renewed its call for public money to be allocated to clear at least some rent arrears...

Campaign group Generation Rent says thousands of tenants in areas of the country under Tier 3 Coronavirus restrictions are in danger...

Campaigners against evictions during the Coronavirus crisis have launched a last-ditch call for the government to grant another extension to the current...

The Generation Rent campaign group has written to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick demanding answers to five questions regarding the eviction extension...

The new director of campaign group Generation Rent says the government has caused “untold mental stress” to thousands of tenants. Commenting on...

The Generation Rent pressure group has made a last-ditch argument in favour of keeping the evictions ban, which will lapse at the...

The campaigning pressure group Generation Rent has returned to the battle to win an extension to the current evictions ban in...

Campaign group Generation Rent says private tenants could miss out on an energy efficiency drive if they are not given the...

A Liberal Democrat bid is underway to accelerate the government timetable to scrap Section 21. The Renters’ Rights Bill put forward by government...

The Generation Rent campaign group has made its second plea to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick in 24 hours - both on...

A debt charity is urging the Housing Secretary to pledge that no one who has lost income because of Coronavirus will...

Former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the new director of the campaign group Generation Rent, claims 500,000 renters are in arrears as...

A pro-tenant campaign group has this morning kicked off its campaign to have the eviction ban - already extended until late...

The militantly pro-tenant Generation Rent group says it’s working with local councils to have a new “tenants’ charter” introduced. The new director...

A Labour Baroness, Alicia Kennedy, has been named as the new director of the fiercely pro-tenant Generation Rent campaign group. The announcement...