Closed petition Introduce rent caps on private let & prevent landlords refusing Housing Benefit

Closed on 3 May 2017

Currently in the SE private rents have become ridiculous, with a single room costing as much as £700 pm. This is useless to a largely working class area. To add to this most letting agents and landlords refuse to accept any form of housing benefit, even as a top up.

I would as that we stop the practice of refusing to accept tenants with housing benefit and ask that we put caps on how much rent can be charged. £1400 pm for a house is impossibly high! This requires you to be earning £34,000 and pay almost £3000 up front (figures on a recent viewing of a property) The average UK wage of £26,500 would not cover this. We have houses. People simply cannot afford them! I would also ask they they stop houses being split into rooms for rental reducing family homes.