{"id":61008,"date":"2025-02-01T00:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T00:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/real-estate\/what-does-the-government-seek-to-achieve-with-the-renters-rights-bill-the-landlord-law-blog\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T00:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T00:06:39","slug":"what-does-the-government-seek-to-achieve-with-the-renters-rights-bill-the-landlord-law-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=61008","title":{"rendered":"What does the government seek to achieve with the Renters Rights Bill? \u00bb The Landlord Law Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\"RentersThe Renters Rights Bill currently wending its way through the House of Lords is the biggest change to the Private Rented Sector in the past 35 years.<\/p>\n

Many people have different opinions about it, and we all see the bill through a prism of our own experience and needs. Tenants will have one view, landlords another.<\/p>\n

But what are the government\u2019s motives? What is important to them?<\/p>\n

Protecting \u2018working people\u2019<\/h2>\n

One of the government\u2019s top aims and manifesto commitments is to help and protect \u2018working people\u2019.<\/p>\n

And although it is accepted that landlords do \u2018work\u2019 \u2013 there may be a few landlords just sitting on a beach sipping pina coladas while tenants hard earned money drops into their bank account, but they are not the majority \u2013 landlords as a class are not people the government consider it is their main duty to protect.<\/p>\n

Most landlords will probably not consider themselves to be \u2018wealthy\u2019 (few people do), but they are very wealthy compared to, say, a young mother who has three cleaning jobs to help her pay for herself and her children and who, despite this still can\u2019t afford to pay her rent and put food on the table.<\/p>\n

On the whole, landlords tend to have reasonably comfortable lives, and the government believes that they can probably look after themselves.<\/p>\n

MPs (many of whom are themselves tenants) will have had a steady stream of constituents coming into their surgeries telling them desperate stories of hardship, of forced evictions of families, some with disabled children, and massive rent increases which they cannot afford.<\/p>\n

They want this to stop.<\/p>\n

Stopping the flood of evictions<\/h2>\n

Apart from the distress caused to the tenants concerned, the high level of evictions has two other consequences:<\/p>\n