Report: Is Belfast Becoming the New Epicentre of the Rental Crisis?
by Róisín Lanigan
Private rents in Northern Ireland’s capital have jumped by nearly 10% in the last 12 months - and no-one's doing anything about it.
Tag: tenants union
Report: An Eviction Crisis Looms. Can Renters Resist It?
by Eloise Barry
A month after the eviction ban ended, renters’ unions are all that stand between some tenants and homelessness. Eloise Barry reports.
Report: Students Have Been Duped Into Returning to Halls – So They’re Refusing to Pay Rent
by Rivkah Brown
On Tuesday, the University of Manchester joined the growing list of UK universities whose students are going on rent strike during the pandemic. Rivkah Brown reports on the student movement the pandemic has restarted.
Report: How We Won: The Activists and Lawyers Who Stopped Asylum Seekers Being Evicted in Glasgow
by Lauren Gilmour
A coalition of activists and lawyers took on the Tories' anti-immigrant agenda in Glasgow, using direct action and legal challenges to stop a government-contracted company making hundreds of vulnerable people street homeless. Lauren Gilmour reports.
What Should Rent Controls Actually Do?
by Gordon Maloney
There is a broad consensus across the population that rent controls are a good idea. But they aren’t always radical, or even that progressive. Gordon Maloney outlines the kind of rent controls we should fight for, and how it is we should fight for them.
6 Reasons We Need to #EndSection21
by Jacob Mukherjee
Private tenants used to be able to stay in their homes for as long as they were paying the rent. But since the introduction of section 21 under the 1988 Housing Act, landlords have had the power to evict tenants with just two months’ notice without giving them a reason. Here are six reasons section 21 needs to be abolished.
3 Reasons We Need Tenants Unions
by London Renters Union
Almost a quarter of UK households will pay rent privately by the end of 2021, and currently there are 3m private renters in London alone. Precarious workers are beginning to rack up victories against their employers. Isn't it time for the precariously housed to take on the landlords?