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Exclusive data collected for Home Front by the pollsters over at YouGov shows that 63 per cent of private renters say that their rent has gone up in the last year.
The leading reason for these rent increases was not that people had moved and started a new tenancy but, instead, that their landlord was asking for more rent within an existing tenancy agreement. However, this doesn’t account for why landlords would be increasing the rents of existing tenants. Beadle continued that there is a shortage of homes for private rent because of taxes introduced by former chancellor George Osborne and the fact that rising mortgage rates “are making letting unviable for many landlords.
created software that collected private rental listings from the property websites OpenRent and Zoopla over a four-day period in May, then removed adverts for rooms in shared accommodation. The Renters’ Reform Bill which is currently making its way through Parliament will seek to outlaw such discrimination once and for all but it could take years to become law and, in the meantime, the BBC report makes for harrowing reading – women with children are becoming homeless because they can’t find anywhere to live and we don’t have enough social housing.has a useful guide about what to do if you feel you are being discriminated against while trying to find a home.
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