Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham is the latest to say he would consider rent controls in the private sector if he came to office.
Burnham - currently shadow health secretary and a one-time advocate of the mansion tax before disowning it after the general election - says in his manifesto for the leadership poll that his vision is for a country where “everyone has an affordable home to rent or to own – through the most ambitious housing policy since the post-war period.”
He says he will develop a Rent To Own policy involving mortgages that do not require a deposit; although his manifesto does not give further details, it shares the name with a Liberal Democrat policy recently unveiled in Wales.
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