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Shelter is asking for public support for radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill, now going through Parliament. The campaigning charity is...

A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...

Shelter is telling the government it “must deliver” on the revolution it pledges under the Renters Reform Bill. Chief executive Polly Neate...

Activist groups which previously focussed much of their fire on landlords are now attacking letting agents, accusing them of encouraging higher...

Activists say they are planning protests outside lettings agency offices this weekend. Activists in the London Renters Union and Greater Manchester Tenants...

A so-called Renters Union is organising a day of action after claiming letting agents are behind recent rent rises. London Renters Union...

An activist at the centre of a controversy involving a London letting agent has used a left-wing website to explain how...

The mainstream media today is reporting that a group of anti-landlord/anti-agent activists called an agent a “w*****” at a protest. This apparently prompted...

An activist group in London has launched a scathing attack on councils which it claims have been ineffective in regulating rogue...

Activists from a range of pressure groups have reacted angrily to what they call a half-baked eviction ban announced by the...

An organisation that wants rent controls, the scrapping of Section 21 and what it calls “indefinite tenancies” claims to have 4,000...

The Momentum movement on the left wing of the Labour Party is joining forces with housing organisations to argue against private...

The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...

A group of activists in London claim as many as 2,500 tenants are on a rent-strike during the Coronavirus crisis. The number is...

The possibility of an extended mortgage holiday being introduced, for landlords as well as home owners, has been sharply criticised by...

Activists in a body called the London Renters Union has returned to the theme of calling for tenants to not pay...

A mailing list operated by the left wing activists’ group Momentum has been used to win support for a rent strike...

Three groups of rental activists have demanded the government scrap all rent payments immediately and cancel all arrears - but mystery...

A campaign group is urging its members to write to landlords asking them to “suspend” rent demands until the Coronavirus crisis...

Labour has given shocking new details of its proposals for the private rental sector including £100.000 fines if properties are deemed...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...

One of London’s leading politicians has created guidelines to help individuals ‘secret shop’ in a bid to expose what she claims...

London politician Sian Berry - who was the Green Party candidate for the Mayoral elections in the capital in May -...