{"id":535381,"date":"2026-04-17T04:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535381\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T04:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:49:18","slug":"green-leader-zack-polanski-calls-for-rent-controls-for-all-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535381\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Leader Zack Polanski calls for rent controls for all homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Polanski said such measures would ease the cost of housing and help end the normalisation of people using food banks, such as that run by the Forest Row Community Fridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He claimed that households would be saving, on average, \u00a33,000 per year if rent controls had been introduced in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That would put \u00a318bn of purchasing power back in the pockets of people who are able to spend that on their communities rather than that money going to private landlords,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From 2027, councils in Scotland will be able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/policies\/private-renting\/rent-controls\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ask for powers from the Scottish government to introduce rent controls, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Similar powers do not exist in England, although annual increases in rents for social housing are capped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rent controls can take many different forms but include limiting how much a landlord can raise rents between tenancies as well as during them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Landlord groups warn they can put owners off renting out properties which could reduce the number of homes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polanski said such measures would ease the cost of housing and help end the normalisation of people using&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-535381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}