Jeremy Hunt is looking the other way while private renters lose their homes 📧 Read Victoria_Spratt's latest newsletter
, Hunt offered no additional support to help anyone struggling with housing costs.
Since then, rents have exploded, meaning that housing benefit has become even further detached from the cost of rent in those areas. Data from theshows that rents in the UK increased by 4.4 per cent in the year between January 2022 and 2023 alone. That is the largest increase since the ONS began recording private rents in 2016.
Worse still, the reality of rent inflation is far worse. Unlike house prices which are recorded by the land registry, there is no central record of rents, and the ONS’s attempt to collect data is still what they call. It is based on newly advertised properties and does not record the rent hikes that take place within tenancies. Private renters are messaging me day in, day out and telling of 20, 30 per cent rent rises and, even in one case, a 70 per cent increase.
Before I went away, I wrote in this newsletter that the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities had begun a social media campaign to put pressure on developers who had still not signed the Government’s contracts which would seal the deal on the removal of dangerous cladding from residential blocks across the country.
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