Generation Rent calls for an end to ‘discriminatory’ Right to Rent

Generation Rent calls for an end to ‘discriminatory’ Right to Rent

0:05 AM, 12th November 2024, About A day ago 15

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Tenant activist group Generation Rent is urging the government to abolish the Right to Rent policy, arguing that it disproportionately affects migrant and ethnic minority renters.

In a report, it details the negative consequences of the policy, which requires landlords in England to check the immigration status of potential tenants.

The research highlights the findings from the Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) which found that 24% of landlords still feel unable to rent to non-UK passport holders, despite the policy being in place for more than eight years.

Also, 85% of prospective tenants who requested online Right to Rent checks received no response from landlords or letting agents.

When questioned, 56% of landlords who said they couldn’t rent to non-UK passport holders pointed to the risk of civil penalties if they were caught out by the policy as a reason.

Who has the right to rent

Generation Rent says: “Although landlords and agents must not make assumptions about who has the right to rent, government research found that 25% of landlords were unwilling, on principle, to let to non-British passport holders, even when they would have the right to rent here.”

“It takes twice as long for black and minority ethnic groups and migrant peoples to find a home to rent compared to a white British person.”

The group held roundtables with UNISON in April to learn of the experiences of public sector workers.

Most of those highlighted the negative impact that Right to Rent had on their, and their family and friends’, ability to find safe and secure homes.

Overhaul the private rented sector

Generation Rent says that the Renters’ Rights Bill offers a crucial opportunity to overhaul the private rented sector and ensure fair and secure housing for all.

However, to succeed, the Bill must address the specific needs of marginalised renters, particularly those from migrant and minority ethnic communities who are disproportionately affected by the housing crisis.

And that means, it says, abolishing the discriminatory Right to Rent policy.


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moneymanager

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15:07 PM, 12th November 2024, About 16 hours ago

Reply to the comment left by TheMaluka at 12/11/2024 - 12:20
'ineptitude'?

Not at all, they are yet another highly adept mechanism for the destruction of social cohesion; if we are going to extract ourselves from the multifaceted mess the world is in, we have to look beyond the 'obvious' face of just about everything be it the 'climate crisis', the 'pandemic', the 'war' in Ukraine, 'refugees', everything is just part of a manufactured, longterm, covert, increasingly not so covert, operation to destroy, rebuild, control, everything, all the time, in other words, global dictatorship, I know this might sound a bit nutty, but not only are the steps potable like a row if dominoes, but old texts actually tell us what was already then happening, this is just endgame but it's not yet checkmate.

Steve O'Dell

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16:59 PM, 12th November 2024, About 14 hours ago

Lunatics trying to run the asylum again

Marlena Topple

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17:02 PM, 12th November 2024, About 14 hours ago

RL you are spot on. I volunteer for a refugee charity and one of my jobs is to find housing which is an impossible task. Even if people meet the income criteria (unusual) they cannot provide a guarantor because they are new arrivals. Landlords can pick and choose and don't want to or need to take a chance on people. Who can blame them with the new legislation coming in?

Judith Wordsworth

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18:02 PM, 12th November 2024, About 13 hours ago

Isn’t that the point of RTR that only those entitled to be in this country can rent property?

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18:37 PM, 12th November 2024, About 12 hours ago

We have a housing crisis because migration is uncontrolled.

I wouldn’t even choose to people from the next county.

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