At last the ban on no-fault evictions is coming to Parliament. What a shame it comes too late for many renters.
The Renters Rights Bill is set to get its First Reading in the House of Commons next week (September 9-13), with a ban on Section 21 – “no-fault” – evictions at its heart. They are used by landlords to evict tenants with two months’ notice and without any reason needing to be given.
The aim is to give renters greater protection against unscrupulous landlords.
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Perhaps adding insult to injury, the Bill also includes a clause giving renters the right to request a pet.
Also:
The bill would also seek to give renters greater rights to challenge rent increases and introduce new laws to end the practice of rental bidding wars by landlords and letting agents.
It would also expand Awaab’s law – named after the toddler who died after exposure to mould in his family’s social rented home – to the private sector, requiring landlords to fix hazards within a certain timeframe.
New clear and expanded [rights] would also be given to landlords to reclaim their properties when they need to.
For This Writer, the new law can’t be brought in soon enough. I know people who have been forced out by unscrupulous landlords using “no-fault” evictions – the distress and disruption they cause.
I’m glad to see that the new Labour government is planning to enact the ban immediately after the bill becomes law – and damn the consequences if it leads to more pressure on the courts from landlords seeking to regain possession of properties by legal means.
It is to the previous, Conservative, government’s shame that it could not be bothered to impose this law itself – perhaps because so many of its MPs were themselves landlords? – and allowed itself instead to run out of time.
Let’s hope this signals a new era for the UK’s renters.
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At last the ban on no-fault evictions is coming to Parliament
At last the ban on no-fault evictions is coming to Parliament. What a shame it comes too late for many renters.
The Renters Rights Bill is set to get its First Reading in the House of Commons next week (September 9-13), with a ban on Section 21 – “no-fault” – evictions at its heart. They are used by landlords to evict tenants with two months’ notice and without any reason needing to be given.
The aim is to give renters greater protection against unscrupulous landlords.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
Perhaps adding insult to injury, the Bill also includes a clause giving renters the right to request a pet.
Also:
For This Writer, the new law can’t be brought in soon enough. I know people who have been forced out by unscrupulous landlords using “no-fault” evictions – the distress and disruption they cause.
I’m glad to see that the new Labour government is planning to enact the ban immediately after the bill becomes law – and damn the consequences if it leads to more pressure on the courts from landlords seeking to regain possession of properties by legal means.
It is to the previous, Conservative, government’s shame that it could not be bothered to impose this law itself – perhaps because so many of its MPs were themselves landlords? – and allowed itself instead to run out of time.
Let’s hope this signals a new era for the UK’s renters.
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