MASSIVE council rent increases are failing London’s poorest residents, tenants stormed today.
The London Tenants Federation (LTF) pointed to recent analysis showing that average council rents across London’s boroughs rocketed by around 90 per cent between 2002 and 2018.
In 2002, council tenants would give an average of 29 per cent of their incomes on rents and related charges.
Edinburgh’s upcoming by-elections offer tenants a chance to put politicians under pressure over soaring rents and a council that has repeatedly sided with landlords and developers, says ADITI JEHANGIR
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Burnham’s U-turn on tackling greedy landlords has let the country down
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises