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• Anonymous commented  ·  February 10, 2012 8:24 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  sign the petition at epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/27024

• jonathan hill commented  ·  February 9, 2012 5:34 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Thatcher removed tenancy rights and fair rent controls in the 1980's. Successive labour and tory governments have done nothing to redress the balence. Many people, myself included are struggling to pay rent increases when wages havent gone up.
  There are in my opinion enough private rental properties to meet demand however without legislation on fair rent / cap landlords will charge as much as they can get away with.

  Due to an abundance of credit people will carry on paying unaffordable rent until they go bust!

  Having a rent cap would make massive savings to the taxpayer on excessive housing benefit payments, which I might add go straight to the pockets of landlords.

  I could be argued that landlords operate in the same way as an ordinary business with premises and get subsidies from the government by not having to pay business rates.

  Jon

• Sandra Crawford commented  ·  June 17, 2011 7:04 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  We need a petition for a rent cap and social house building. My
  grown up children and all their peers face a tough future with scarce
  housing and the cost of it. This government wants housing benefit cuts for
  the poor when a rent cap would pass the burden on to those more able to
  afford the loss. Housing benefit can be an indirect subsidy for the wealthy
  landlords.

  See also http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/jun/17/rents-hit-record-high.

  I think that the government should build more council homes by taxing the
  land. A combined petition for rent cap, and social housing.

  See also http://www.newstatesman.com/200409200005 and
  http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2011/03/million-acres-land-ownership

  Sandra Crawford