Candidates in next month’s Holborn and St Pancras by election in London have been lobbied to demand rent controls
The Generation Rent activist group – led by a new chief executive, who worked for Labour’s John Healey before taking up her new job – says it’s written to what it calls “key” candidates.
On social media the group says Camden – the borough in which the constituency sits – is the fourth least affordable London borough for private renters
And it claims the someone paying the average rent in Camden will pay their landlords £134,000 in four years.
The campaign group claims that the by election – on October 8 – is an opportunity to show “that rent controls are a vote winner.”
Labour and the Greens are favourites to win the poll, caused by the resignation of Sir Kier Starmer from Parliament.
The Greens are long-standing advocates of rent controls and Labour has already restricted rent rises through the Renters Rights Act, aided by the upcoming mandatory landlord database.
This article is taken from Landlord Today