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A left-leaning think tank which says it champions ‘left-behind Londoners’ is demanding a turbo-charged version of selective licensing to be run...
26 May 2023
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The National Audit Office has made scathing criticisms of government efforts to build more affordable housing. The public spending watchdog says the...
13 September 2022
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It’s been confirmed that the controversial Renters Reform Bill will still be introduced by the end of this session of Parliament,...
24 August 2022
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The sweeping reforms for the private rental sector announced by the government at the end of last week do not go...
21 June 2022
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Just over 7,000 households in London have been threatened with homelessness in the past three years alone after being issued with...
10 May 2022
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The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants is introducing a new qualification and training for borough council housing enforcement officers to...
17 February 2022
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A senior Labour politician in the capital claims that there’s been “a stark rise” in people losing their homes since the...
06 December 2021
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Labour has joined with campaign groups Generation Rent and Shelter in calling for the speediest possible ending of Section 21 eviction...
03 November 2021
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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
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A huge trading standards operation clamping down on lettings agents who fail to abide by Client Money Protection rules has been...
25 February 2021
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Labour claims over 350 households in London alone were issued with a Section 21 notice during the first lockdown in spring...
09 November 2020
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A foundation which receives substantial funding from trade unions and a charity linked to the Nationwide is calling for rents to...
15 May 2020
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The Labour head of a special ‘taskforce’ looking at London housing issues in the light of the Coronavirus crisis says he...
29 April 2020
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Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...
19 September 2019
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Media reports in London suggest that Labour’s hyper-active housing spokesman on the Greater London Assembly may be under threat from Jeremy...
10 July 2019
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Airbnb and short let management service Hostmaker - at the centre of a dispute involving a landlord trade body and the...
04 June 2019
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A company appearing to call on landlords to abandon tenants and instead let their properties to short-let visitors is now trying...
28 May 2019
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The Mayor of London is under pressure to pull advertisements calling on landlords to stop providing homes for Londoners and move...
23 May 2019
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The scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers has been welcomed by the London Assembly - but apparently it doesn’t go far...
17 April 2019
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A senior Labour politician claims that “unscrupulous” letting agents are hammering tenants with higher-than-usual charges between now and June 1 when...
14 February 2019
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Two senior London politicians are backing a campaign to scrap the powers of agents and landlords to evict tenants under Section...
06 July 2018
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Politicians in London and Scotland are looking at new controls which could be imposed on home owners letting out their properties...
31 January 2018
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One of London’s leading politicians has created guidelines to help individuals ‘secret shop’ in a bid to expose what she claims...
03 January 2017
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London politician Sian Berry - who was the Green Party candidate for the Mayoral elections in the capital in May -...
15 July 2016
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Countrywide is calling on the Greater London Assembly to implement a single landlord licensing scheme which individual borough councils can opt...
22 December 2015
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Rents in the private sector have been falling in real terms according to an independent study just published. The research, commissioned by...
09 October 2015
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has made a detailed case against so-called 'rent stabilisation' measures advocated by some on the...
05 October 2015
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London Mayor and Tory leadership wannabee Boris Johnson wants rogue operators in the private rental sectors to be banned with repeat...