Angela Rayner wants to ‘work in partnership’ with PRS landlords

Angela Rayner wants to ‘work in partnership’ with PRS landlords

9:54 AM, 23rd September 2024, About 3 months ago 42

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The deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner told delegates at the Labour Party conference that she wanted to ‘work in partnership’ with PRS and social landlords to deliver ‘decent and safe’ homes.

She said: “Many housing associations, councils and landlords do good by their tenants and I know how hard they’ve had it after 14 years under the Tories.

“Which is why I will work in partnership with the sector to deliver the change.”

Ms Rayner added: “Our renters’ bill will rebalance the relationship between tenant and landlord and end no-fault evictions – for good.

“Our long-term plan will free leaseholders from the tyranny of a mediaeval system.

“And a cross-government taskforce will put Britain back on track to ending homelessness.”

Extend Awaab’s law to the PRS

She added: “I will clamp down on damp and mouldy homes by bringing in Awaab’s Law in the social rented sector this autumn and we’ll extend it to the private rented sector too.

“We will consult and implement a new Decent Homes Standard for social and privately rented homes, to end the scandal of homes being unfit to live in.”

Along with a promise to enable social housing tenants to hold their landlord to account Ms Rayner lambasted the Tories for failing to build homes ‘year, after year’.

She said: “Michael Gove handed back nearly £2 billion to the Treasury in unspent housing funds. Mortgages have soared.

“Leaseholders are left at the mercy of eye-watering charges.

“Renters face crippling rent hikes in damp and mouldy homes. Homelessness is all around us.”

Fix the ‘Tories’ housing emergency’

Ms Rayner promised to fix the ‘Tories’ housing emergency’ and get Britain building decent homes for working people.

There will be a new planning framework to deliver affordable homes and deliver ‘the biggest boost to social and affordable housing in a generation’.

She told delegates at the conference in Liverpool: “My mission is not just to build houses; it is to build homes.

“Because we cannot build at any cost. These new homes must be warm, secure and most importantly safe.”

Give landlords confidence

On Twitter/X, Ben Beadle, the chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, said: “These reforms at least give certainty, but must be very carefully balanced between giving renters greater security and landlords confidence to stay in the market.

“We are in the middle of a housing crisis with 21 applicants per property – this is unlikely to improve if there are not some modifications to the Bill on implementation, court reform, students and refinements to possession grounds.

“You cannot say you are giving landlords more robust grounds when the mandatory rent arrears ground will see a doubling of notice periods from two to four weeks, and three months of rent arrears not two. It sends the wrong message.”


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Martin

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14:07 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 3 months ago

Reply to the comment left by dismayed landlord at 23/09/2024 - 13:39
I am totally with you, the only reason we were entertaining it at that margin was that it is a second business for both of us and he is actually a medium size builder.
My point on the forum though is we are desperate for housing as a country and yet the rules, regulations and taxes actually prevent it.

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14:17 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 3 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Martin at 23/09/2024 - 14:07
yes understood - LA make it hard work and even if HMRC give you the VAT back on new builds the builders know this and add it back in!! Its a circle that needs to be broken.
The red queen will have a better chance!! they can circumvent the rules (they already are) and get massive leverage on the sheer number involved - all those homes in only 5 years. Builders be rubbing their hands.
Nope I do not think so!

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14:31 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 3 months ago

Reply to the comment left by TheMaluka at 23/09/2024 - 11:46
It's the Renter's Right Bill, which says it all. Labour wont discard but will make things harder and more complex for Landlords

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15:35 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 3 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Northernpleb at 23/09/2024 - 11:45
Please send this to Angela Rayner.

Who believes her weasel words of 'wanting to work in partnership with LLs' when the new Renter's Bill so clearly does the opposite?

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18:03 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 3 months ago

Periodic tenancies might give flexibility in both sides, but some tenants may simply be unable to give adequate underwriting evidence in the first place, even apparently monied people such as returning expats for privately funded foreign students are usually accepted on a pre oayment abd no, a guarantor is usually not accepted.

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20:45 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 3 months ago

Best laugh for ages 😂.

It's nowhere near 1st April either!

Stella

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22:43 PM, 23rd September 2024, About 3 months ago

... and pigs might fly!

Gary Dully

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3:25 AM, 24th September 2024, About 3 months ago

I blame Ben Beadle and the NRLA for this farce in the PRS.
His organisation’s response is pathetic!

He should be using language so fierce against politicians that they should think he’s Tommy Robinsons twin brother!

Landlords have been discriminated against in taxation, planning, finance, licensing, the press, the courts and now it’s going to get worse.

Tell me of any other business demographic in this country where you are now mistreated so badly?

We are now the slaves of the business world and treated like permanent thieves.

We are at the financial mercy of every tyrannical politician and council clipboard zealots that walk our streets.

Yet Beadle does NOTHING but issue a pathetic tweet!
Is that it?, is that all you’ve got Beadle?
Is that what our subscriptions have paid for?
Your pathetically weak !- get out of that organisation and pass your position to somebody with some fire in their belly!

Siroje

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6:31 AM, 24th September 2024, About 3 months ago

If AR wants to work with the PRS, start with scrapping Section 24 and give PRS Landlords a fighting chance and don't discriminate against them in favour of the Large Corporates.
Maybe then some PRS landlords will then stop selling.
I've been renting hundreds of properties for my self and others over the years and have never issued a section 21!
Tony Blair's wife took Osborne to court over Section 24 trying to overturn it, where has she gone?

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9:43 AM, 24th September 2024, About 3 months ago

Reply to the comment left by Neil P at 23/09/2024 - 13:03
Electrically powered vehicles need to be parked close to the dwelling so they can be recharged .

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