Petition Petition to make it illegal for owners to rent out residential properties (houses, flats etc) at a higher price than the cost of the mortgage

More details

House prices are bloody ridiculous. At the moment renting a house costs more than a mortgage on the same property.

The rich people who own several houses are pushing up the costs of renting and also pricing middle class people out of the housing market because they buy all the houses, then they have a monopoly on the renting market.

This is taking the mick. Yet another way the rich get richer and the poor don't get a bloody thing.

We the undersigned petition Her Majesty's government to make illegal the renting/letting of residential properties at a price which exceeds that of servicing debts secured on the property.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

6 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 6 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 19 June 2013
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.