Comment: We need a London Renters Union to represent tenants in the housing crisis
As rent soars ahead of pay, it’s time for renters to organise, argues Sian Berry
As rent soars ahead of pay, it’s time for renters to organise, argues Sian Berry
The shortcomings of such light-touch reforms are plain, writes Rob Edwards.
The private rented sector offers flexibility to landlords but very little stability for tenants, writes Tom Copley.
Do you want to wait thirty years until house prices are at affordable levels again? I doubt many priced out renters in the capital would be happy to put up with the status quo for that long, but that could be the prospect if we just rely on building more homes to solve the housing crisis.
In a follow-up to their 2011 report In the Black Labour, Graeme Cooke, Adam Lent, Anthony Painter and Hopi Sen reaffirm their commitment to fiscal conservatism.
“Build build build. We must build more homes.”
Any politician who came out with such a statement would be greeted with near universal applause. Build them and they will clap.