Tag Archives: rent

What’s to stop landlords passing the cost of immigration checks on to already squeezed tenants?

For the sake of appeasing a handful of Tory backbenchers and shoring up the UKIP vote, the government may have just heaped another burden on already hard-pressed tenants.

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Private rents in London outstrip inflation

Private rents in London are outstripping inflation, new figures reveal.

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Building social housing would cut the housing benefit bill three times faster than a cap

Cormac Hollingsworth shows how social housing could be the best way to save money on housing benefit: Three times as effective as a cap.

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‘Downsizing’ the housing strategy

Kevin Gulliver examines Grant Shapps’ housing plan and finds it lacking

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Livingstone pledges London Living Rent, saying Boris has “completely failed” on housing

Ken Livingstone today pledged to establish a London-wide non-profit lettings agency and introduce a London Living Rent for the capital, reports Shamik Das.

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