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Screenshot of Hansard from the Spring Statement 3/3/26. Robert Jenrick Reform UK, Newark "The Chancellor is like a rogue landlord who keeps squeezing the tenant with higher and higher rent, and all the while, the property is going to rack and ruin."

Robert Jenrick said this one week after his party announced that it would tear up laws limiting rent increases to once per year and making it harder for landlords to evade their responsibilities

Also if you don't like Houses in Multiple Occupation, and there is real concern about landlords switching family homes to accommodate single adults for more rent, then you should want to build a lot of single occupancy flats

Thanks for the update - essential reading as always. Could the situation in Iran affect Russia's supply of UAVs etc?

Petition to ban employees of Number 10 from social media

I thought the Simpsons kids calling Homer "Homer" was a funny bit, but no, it's actually a thing (5+ years after toddlerhood, mine have thankfully grown out of it)

Rent tops £1,000 a month in more areas - find out where The cost of renting privately has surged in the last five years, but tenants may now see a slowdown.

Of course many other factors at play - eg home owning grads are older so less likely to be on terrible student loan repayment plans.

Anyway here's the BBC story (was due to be on Today to talk about it this morning before Iran situation took over)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Interesting chart from @edhodgsoned.bsky.social @moreincommonuk.bsky.social - Labour struggling with renters. May change once Renters Rights Act comes in and if slowdown in rents (reported on BBC today) continues.

Can Sadiq Khan stop Asif Aziz's mass evictions? We went to the billionaire's home to get answers, as a leading homelessness charity cut ties with the landlord and tenants begged the mayor to save their homes.

Breaking:
*Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON
*Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord
*Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation
*Questions over legality of paperwork
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

'Because council tax is included in rent you can't register to vote' (which is nonsense) actually means 'please don't tell the council or HMRC that the property is let out'.

Basically a confession that the landlord is iffy, in the Rightmove listing!

This cottage in Hertfordshire is yours to rent for £1450pm...

...as long as you don’t register to vote.

What a red flag – landlords can't deny your democratic rights.

The big surprise is that the letting agent thinks it’s okay to include in the advert
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Looking back at some of the MRPs that have been predicting a Reform landslide, the combined Reform and Conservative vote yesterday was 8 percentage points less than @moreincommonuk.bsky.social had for them in G&D in Jan. Obv a byelection but I wonder how seriously these polls will be taken now.

Ha! I met him back then and that's a fair description

Tenant could say that they'd pull out of agreement and seek the return of the holding deposit on the basis that agent is being unreasonable (which the law supports the tenant on)

I've been watching golden age Simpsons with the kids and I have a new one every episode, but every time I have to think of one it's

"It was the best of times it was the blurst of times?!"

Over TWO-THIRDS of the public supports the end of Section 21 evictions. So why does Reform want to repeal renters' rights?

Scrapping the Renters' Rights Act would just mean more homelessness and insecurity for England's 11 million renters. Reform should think again.

BREAKING 🚨 Generation Rent slams Reform UK plans to scrap hard-won protections for renters. Our Chief Executive, @bentwomeyuk.bsky.social, reacts👇

“Disgraceful”: Generation Rent responds to Reform UK plans to repeal tenancy reforms (PRESS RELEASE) - Generation Rent Policy would be “a gift to unscrupulous landlords” Generation Rent has slammed Reform UK’s latest policy to scrap the Renters’ Rights Act if they form the government at the next General Election.  The...

It is disgraceful to see Reform UK pledging to roll back new and essential protections that would improve the quality of renters' homes and help us to stay in them for longer.

This would be a gift to unscrupulous landlords.
www.generationrent.org/2026/02/24/d...

Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Hearing anecdotally about a jump right now but moj court data shows section 21s have been drifting down from a peak in late 2024. At that time landlords had just been given a capital gains tax cut, prompting sales, and rents were rising more rapidly than they are now.

Still ongoing by the looks of it - came up in the London Assembly last year www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...

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Really important journalism (thanks Jim!). Tenants affected in Merton and Croydon; landlord is supposedly going to make the homes available as temporary accommodation, theoretically housing evicted tenants at higher prices, borne by the council.

Full of admiration for what Emma does in threads like this one. Read it, it’s interesting.

There was a similar situation in Dorchester Court in south London and a few other places over the years. I'm sure it happens a lot with less fuss because of Section 21 - we might see that change and more harassment, but the Protection From Eviction Act would theoretically step in at that point

Nice that we now have Purple Four One as a pre-watershed alternative

Live Lowry painting on the red button right now

Say what you like about the Trump administration, it's providing some solid case study material for A-level Politics

Generation Rent Jobs - Generation Rent Current Vacancies: Board Member vacancies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – Generation Rent Generation Rent is looking for an experienced and committed board member to join its board of direct...

We're recruiting board members at @generationrent.bsky.social - looking for candidates from the devolved nations, with economics expertise and/or a fundraising background. Deadline is next Wednesday. Find our more: www.generationrent.org/generation-r...

The worst thing about being arrested on your birthday is it rules out the possibility of getting a cake with a file in it for another 364 days.