This consultation response focuses on tenants' rights.
Common Weal welcomes this consultation into tenants rights but we are concerned that it will result in many of the same arguments arising as they have many times in the past and will result only in action several years hence. In the mean time, rents will continue to rise and people will continue to suffer from seeing the collective wealth of the nation accumulate with those fortunate enough to have pulled the housing ladder up around them. In particular, any future attempt to bring in Rent Controls must acknowledge the fact that rents have risen considerably in the years since the last, failed attempts and we must receive from the government a commitment that rents will be able to be reduced, not merely frozen or their rate of increase capped