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The government has been warned by a charity not to weaken its commitment to scrapping Section 21 by allowing ‘backdoor evictions’...

A string of debt advice charities want Housing Secretary Michael Gove to go well beyond merely banning Section 21 in a...

A new poll from the StepChange Debt Charity claims that over a third of private renters have used some form of...

A charity has acknowledged that landlords need help to keep their homes, and in turn continue to provide much-needed homes in...

A charity is warning that growing numbers of private tenants are likely to have difficulties keeping up with their financial commitments. The...

A charity claims that private renters are about twice as likely as the general population to be in problem debt. StepChange, via...

Another charity has criticised landlords using eviction powers on tenants with Covid-related arrears.  StepChange, a debt advice charity, says it wants to...

A £360m ‘wall of rent debt’ built up during the pandemic, combined with cuts to Universal Credit, threatens to leave hundreds...

A stinging attack on Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been made by the National Residential Landlords Association. The trade body has produced a...

A coalition of rental groups with the same view on how to tackle arrears is calling on the Chancellor to help...

Thousands of renters face the prospect of losing their homes when the rental eviction ban lifts next month unless the government...