Rental reforms ‘to deliver on promise to transform lives of millions of tenants’

Sign up to our free money newsletter for investment analysis and expert advice to help you build wealth Sign up to our free money email for help building your wealth Sign up to our free money email for help building your wealth SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy New legislation will modernise how the country’s “insecure and unjust private rented sector” is regulated, the Government has pledged as rental reforms are again debated in Parliament. The groups, including the National Residential Landlords Association, British Property Federation and Propertymark, said the Government’s proposed changes “risk making access to rented housing harder for the very people we want to support”. Limiting rent in advance, combined with frozen housing benefit rates and not enough rental housing, will make it all but impossible for those with poor or no credit histories Landlords coalition group Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said: “To truly make renting more secure and affordable, the Bill must limit in-tenancy rent increases in line with either inflation or wage growth. The coalition representing landlords and those in the property sector said: “Limiting rent in advance, combined with frozen housing benefit rates and not enough rental housing, will make it all but impossible for those with poor or no credit histories in the UK to prove their ability to sustain tenancies.