Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has said Prime Minister Andy Burnham is not looking at bringing in rent controls in England.<\/p>\n
She told BBC Breakfast that changes made through the Renters’ Rights Act, which came into effect in May, were “already having a significant impact on the market”.<\/p>\n
She added that controls which had been implemented in some areas of the UK over the past few years had not “necessarily brought rents down”.<\/p>\n
In 2023 when he was the mayor of Greater Manchester, Burnham called for freezes to private sector rents until the cost of living crisis was over.<\/p>\n
But Rayner told the BBC on Friday: “I don’t think that rent freezes, rent controls, is a way forward at the moment.<\/p>\n
“Three years ago, Andy called for that because there was a significant crisis in the rental market.<\/p>\n
“We implemented between then the Renters’ Rights Act which is giving renters more power and control.”<\/p>\n
Temporary rent controls were introduced in Scotland in October 2022 but expired last year.<\/p>\n
Under new legislation, ministers in Holyrood will be able to designate certain places in Scotland as rent control areas – expected to come in by 2027.<\/p>\n
Councils will be able to cap rent increases on some properties at a maximum of 6%.<\/p>\n
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has said he wants to see rent controls brought in for all rented property in England. <\/p>\n
Responding to Rayner’s interview, he described Burnham as “continuity Starmer”, posting on X: “The new prime minister talks a lot of about helping with the cost of living crisis. This is the one single measure that would help the most and save billions. All talk.”<\/p>\n
Sir Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has long called on the government to implement a cap.<\/p>\n
The term rent controls describes a range of measures a government can implement – from capping price increases to freezing them for a period of time. <\/p>\n
Landlord groups say they may exacerbate the housing crisis by putting owners off renting out property. <\/p>\n
The Renters’ Rights Act was brought in to give more stability and security to the 11 million people who rent from private landlords.<\/p>\n
Under the legislation, fixed-term tenancies have been banned and it is now significantly harder for landlords to evict tenants.<\/p>\n
Rents can also only be increased once a year to the property’s “open market rent”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has said Prime Minister Andy Burnham is not looking at bringing in rent controls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708631","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\/708631","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=708631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}