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Rayner vows to ban S21 ‘no-fault’ evictions on day one of a Labour government
10:57 AM, 20th November 2023, 2 years ago
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Angela Rayner says that if Labour wins the next General Election, she will ban Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions on the first day of taking office, without any conditions or delays.
Labour’s deputy leader and shadow secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities, has outlined her ambitious plans for housing reform in an interview with i.
The current Conservative government pledged to scrap ‘no-fault’ evictions in 2019 but has since postponed the legislation until it can carry out complex court reforms.
Ms Rayner accused the Tories of ‘appeasing’ their rebel backbenchers and ‘letting down’ tenants.
The ‘blunt tool of hard rent caps’
In the interview, Ms Rayner also offered an opinion on rent regulation and said the ‘blunt tool of hard rent caps is not going to solve the problem’.
She says the country’s housing crisis can only be solved by building more homes.
Ms Rayner added: “If something is in short supply, the price goes up – I don’t want the good landlords to go out of the market.”
She also revealed that Labour will be putting forward an amendment to the delayed Renters’ (Reform) Bill this week, to force the government to introduce the ‘no-fault’ evictions ban without any caveats.
And she says it would be an ‘absolute disgrace’ if the eviction ban had not happened by the time Labour came to power and vowed to ‘deliver’ it immediately if that was the case.
Review the Right to Buy policy
Ms Rayner also promised to review the Right to Buy policy for council and social homes which she said was ‘unfair’ to both tenants and taxpayers because it depleted affordable housing stock and often benefited private landlords rather than residents.
She would also implement the Law Commission’s recommendations to end ‘feudal’ leasehold home ownership, which affects millions of homeowners who must pay ground rent and service charges to a freeholder.
The government has rejected some of the proposals, such as allowing leaseholders to extend their leases for 990 years at zero cost.
Labour would also spend the money allocated for building council and social housing and begin building ‘new towns’.
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Angela Rayner, housing crisis, labour, Labour Housing Reform, No-Fault Eviction Ban, s21, section 21, Section 21 Evictions, UK Landlord Legislation
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Member Since May 2022 - Comments: 108
2:19 PM, 20th November 2023, About 2 years ago
I agree with “LaLo’s comment”, Some landlords ought to have their properties confiscated!!
Angela is typical of speaking comments not realising this had been tried before. And didn’t work!! It’s political BS. A vote winner. ALL parties are quite good at this.
Member Since September 2015 - Comments: 1013
2:29 PM, 20th November 2023, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Easy rider at 20/11/2023 – 12:01
Rayner demonstrating how clueless she is about the PRS. She doesn’t understand that Sec.21 is a process not a cause of evictions. Evictions will still occur because of the underlying cause that Sec.21 was invoked in the first place, it’s just that the burden of proof will be higher and therefore more costly for Landlords to evidence resulting in higher rents; and for those Landlords who don’t want the hassle and the extra risk that a biased judge might preside over a case will exit the PRS and exacerbate the current shortage of rental properties still further.
….all for a few populist votes!!!!
Member Since November 2020 - Comments: 45
4:49 PM, 20th November 2023, About 2 years ago
Sadly what you say is true………of many council houses. Grenfell Tower owned by the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Bristol Tower block unfit and insafe, tenants made homeless. Here in Glasgow the council is overrun by properties that are damp . These are not private landlords. They are the councils!
Member Since August 2016 - Comments: 1190
5:02 PM, 20th November 2023, About 2 years ago
As a responsible landlord in the PRS I’d never fit flammable cladding to my properties. And I’d never tell my tenants to stay put in a property that was on fire.
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2:51 PM, 22nd November 2023, About 2 years ago
I don’t legally see how she could do this. Until section 8 is reformed such an action would prevent some landlords from moving in or selling the property.
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2:58 PM, 22nd November 2023, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Landlord1984 at 22/11/2023 – 14:51
she can’t. Nothing stands in the way of a great sound bite though does it! Remember the mantra ‘ all private LL’s are baaaad, only Labour can save tenants from this evil’.
Cult brainwashing in full swing…..anything for a red vote.
Member Since February 2016 - Comments: 1056
1:04 PM, 23rd November 2023, About 2 years ago
Personally, I would like to hear her explanation of how I, as a tax-paying landlord, benefit from chunks of my taxes subsidizing the sale of council properties to their tenants, especially bearing in mind that those properties had originally been built with public funds from taxation. RTB was introduced to relieve local authorities of the rising burden of paying for repair and refurbishment of ageing council houses by transferring those costs to the new owners, in the belief that it would have the side-effect of boosting Tory vote numbers.