This is Home Front with Vicky Spratt, a subscriber-only newsletter from i. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every single week,Good afternoon and welcome to this week’s Home Front. The flurry of political conference season is over, but the housing crisis rages on.Yes, you read that right: there is a correlation between declining health and being a private renter.
In order to test the link between ageing and private renting, Dr Clair and the other researchers tested DNA. As things stand, the Government’s plan to end no-fault evictions seems to be stuck in Parliament and plans to introduce measures which would increase standards in privately rented homes by requiring landlords to improve the energy efficiency of properties which, in turn, would help to combat damp and mould, were recently scrapped by Rishi Sunak.‘s Vicky Spratt that Labour would happily lend the Government their votes to pass the Renters’ Reform Bill.
Last week at Labour’s conference in Liverpool, the shadow Housing Minister, Matthew Pennycook, told me that Labour would happily lend the Government their votes to pass the Renters’ Reform Bill., that seems to be the problem. The Government neither wants to be defeated nor be seen to be relying on Labour votes.