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Plans to ban “no-fault” evictions and to make it easier for tenants to keep pets will be unveiled as part of the government’s new deal for private renters published later.
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is set to publish its Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper, which it describes as “the biggest shake up of the private rented sector in 30 years”.
Among the proposals are a pledge to outlaw Section 21 “no-fault” evictions that allow landlords to terminate tenancies without any given reason.
The move comes after reports suggest more than a fifth of private renters who moved in 2019 and 2020 did not end their tenancy by choice, including 8% who were asked to leave by their landlord.
These types of eviction notices are controversial – and three years ago, the government promised to ban them.
The department is also promising to change the rules to make it easier to own a pet in rented accommodation, with the new white paper stating that landlords “must consider and cannot unreasonably refuse” requests by all tenants to keep an animal in their home.
The new deal will also see the Decent Homes Standard extended to the private sector for the first time, meaning homes must be free from serious health and safety hazards, and landlords must keep homes in a good state of repair so renters have clean, appropriate and useable facilities.
The government says the new blueprint for renters reform will “redress the balance” between landlords and the estimated 4.4 million private rented tenants in England.
Other measures in the white paper include:
• A pledge to end arbitrary rent review clauses, give tenants stronger powers to challenge poor practice, unjustified rent increases and enable them to be repaid rent for non-decent housing
• Notice periods for rent increases will be doubled and tenants will have stronger power to challenge rises if they are unjustified
• It will become illegal for…
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Source : skynews
