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![Activists blame letting agents for pushing up rents](/upload/images/Logos/generation-rent400x310.png)
Activist groups which previously focussed much of their fire on landlords are now attacking letting agents, accusing them of encouraging higher...
20 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Government may scrap plans to abolish Section 21](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310.png)
The government may be changing its mind on scrapping Section 21 eviction powers according to a bombshell story in The Times. Outlining what...
11 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists demand rent freeze and eviction ban in England next](/upload/images/Miscellaneous/Protest-400x310.jpg)
Activist renters want Liz Truss to follow Scotland’s lead and introduce a rent freeze and eviction ban. The emergency measures - announced...
07 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists begin lobbying new Conservative housing chief](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/GeneralElection-2017-400x310.jpg)
Within two hours of Greg Clarke being appointed by Boris Johnson as the new Housing Secretary, the leader of Generation Rent...
08 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![And again... Activists renew call for Section 21 to be scrapped](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/business-competition400x310.png)
An activist group claims that homeless cases arising from Section 21 evictions are now at their highest level since records began...
04 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists turn on letting agents and Labour as “landlords’ lackeys”](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Protest-400x310.jpg)
An activist at the centre of a controversy involving a London letting agent has used a left-wing website to explain how...
25 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent claims economy stacked against private tenants](/upload/images/Logos/GenerationRent-logo400x310.png)
The leader of the Generation Rent campaign group has accused Chancellor Rishi Sunak of “stacking the economy against private renters who...
28 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Shock as lettings PropTech firm backs Labour call for rent freeze](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
A PropTech supplier to the lettings industry that has just signed a deal with OnTheMarket has come out in support of...
11 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent leader to speak at ARLA Propertymark conference](/upload/images/Logos/generation-rent400x310.png)
Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the director of Generation Rent, is to be one of the speakers in a debate at the ARLA...
09 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents slam calls for mandatory register for all landlords](/upload/images/library/ARLA-PropertyMark-400x310.jpg)
Two recent calls for the introduction of a national mandatory landlord register in England have been rebuffed by agents’ trade body...
27 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent re-runs argument with government over Section 21](/upload/images/Logos/GenerationRent-logo400x310.png)
Campaign group Generation Rent, led by former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has renewed its call for the scrapping of Section 21...
27 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Activists want HMRC to remove tax perks from holiday lets](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/House-Tax-400x310.jpg)
Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...
18 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![End all S24 evictions now, demand Baroness and Lord](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Eviction400x310.png)
A prominent member of the House of Lords and a rental activist are calling for an immediate suspension of all Section...
19 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Labour and Generation Rent join forces again for rent controls](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
The Generation Rent campaign group and Labour are again uniting to argue in favour of rent controls in London. Just last week...
15 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Eviction Ban: government accused of hypocrisy over tenants’ rights](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Sad-Tenants-Evicted-400x310.jpg)
Baroness Alicia Kennedy has accused the government of hypocrisy over its diverging approach to evictions for commercial and residential tenants. On Wednesday...
18 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Renters’ group on the warpath over agents’ documentation](/img/default/lat.png)
The activist group Generation Rent is urging tenants to scrutinise the paperwork they get from agents to use against possible eviction. Failure...
07 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Indefinite Tenancies is key demand in campaigners’ reform manifesto](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaign group Generation Rent has set out a 10-point plan for reform of the private rental sector in favour of tenants. Its...
27 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Activists slam “reckless” end to eviction ban after 15 months](/img/default/lat.png)
The head of the tenants’ campaign group Generation Rent has condemned the government as “reckless” for ending the eviction ban on May...
13 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tenants have already waited two years for reform, warns Baroness](/img/default/lat.png)
The most vocal campaign group for tenants, Generation Rent, has warned government that renters have already been waiting two years for...
12 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Activists blast councils for failing to act over “unsafe rental properties”](/img/default/lat.png)
Councils are failing to protect tenants in three out of four cases where they discover rental homes are unsafe, according to...
29 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Almost 700,000 renters facing eviction says campaign body](/img/default/lat.png)
A group of rental campaign bodies have come together to claim that some 694,000 tenants apparently face eviction when the current...
15 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Anti-agent campaigners brand eviction ban extension ‘inadequate’](/img/default/lat.png)
Acorn, a prominent campaign group targeting letting agency offices for protests, says the latest eviction ban extension doesn't go far enough. While...
11 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ anger that Budget didn’t offer cash help for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector. “Extending...
04 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![‘Inaccurate’ anti-eviction petition gains 30,000 signatures](/img/default/lat.png)
An online petition which appears to inaccurately say private tenants can still be evicted “for no reason” has won 30,000 signatures...
23 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Labour says latest eviction ban extension isn’t enough](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour says the latest extension to the ban on bailiff-enforced evictions doesn’t go far enough to help tenants. The extension to the...
15 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Angry activists want arrears cancelled as well as full eviction ban](/img/default/lat.png)
Activists from a range of pressure groups have reacted angrily to what they call a half-baked eviction ban announced by the...
11 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Boris Johnson confirms eviction ban is “under review”](/img/default/lat.png)
The Prime Minister has told MPs that the eviction ban effectively in place now but scheduled to expire on January 11...
07 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Private tenants should get bigger benefits says Generation Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
Generation Rent’s campaign for more public funds for private tenants continues unabated with a call on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase...
25 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![‘We want public funds to pay rent arrears’ - campaigners renew call](/img/default/lat.png)
The Generation Rent campaign has renewed its call for public money to be allocated to clear at least some rent arrears...
23 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![“Thousands” of Tier 3 private tenants face eviction, claim activists](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaign group Generation Rent says thousands of tenants in areas of the country under Tier 3 Coronavirus restrictions are in danger...
23 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Anti-eviction campaigners launch last ditch call for extension](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaigners against evictions during the Coronavirus crisis have launched a last-ditch call for the government to grant another extension to the current...
14 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Evictions latest: Campaigners demand answers from government](/img/default/lat.png)
The Generation Rent campaign group has written to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick demanding answers to five questions regarding the eviction extension...
26 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Baroness blames government for “untold mental stress” for renters](/img/default/lat.png)
The new director of campaign group Generation Rent says the government has caused “untold mental stress” to thousands of tenants. Commenting on...
24 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent in last-ditch bid to keep evictions ban](/img/default/lat.png)
The Generation Rent pressure group has made a last-ditch argument in favour of keeping the evictions ban, which will lapse at the...
21 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent returns to warpath over eviction fears](/img/default/lat.png)
The campaigning pressure group Generation Rent has returned to the battle to win an extension to the current evictions ban in...
17 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Give tenants power to trigger energy improvements - Generation Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaign group Generation Rent says private tenants could miss out on an energy efficiency drive if they are not given the...
31 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Section 21: Lib Dems want government to finally scrap it](/img/default/lat.png)
A Liberal Democrat bid is underway to accelerate the government timetable to scrap Section 21. The Renters’ Rights Bill put forward by government...
27 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Anti-eviction group’s second plea to Jenrick in 24 hours](/img/default/lat.png)
The Generation Rent campaign group has made its second plea to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick in 24 hours - both on...
23 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![New call to government to prevent some evictions after ban ends](/img/default/lat.png)
A debt charity is urging the Housing Secretary to pledge that no one who has lost income because of Coronavirus will...
22 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Campaigning Baroness slams Sunak over possible “mass homelessness”](/img/default/lat.png)
Former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the new director of the campaign group Generation Rent, claims 500,000 renters are in arrears as...
09 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Baroness kicks off campaign to have all arrears evictions suspended](/img/default/lat.png)
A pro-tenant campaign group has this morning kicked off its campaign to have the eviction ban - already extended until late...
01 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Baroness wants “renters’ charter” to be agreed by councils](/img/default/lat.png)
The militantly pro-tenant Generation Rent group says it’s working with local councils to have a new “tenants’ charter” introduced. The new director...