00:00This is a huge moment for renters potentially. We're living in hope because it's not past
00:04Parliament yet, it's only about halfway through that process, but if it does go through then we're
00:08going to finally see the end of section 21 no-fault evictions. Those are the evictions that mean we
00:13don't have to have done anything wrong and we can be kicked out of our home at a moment's notice
00:18with just two months in which to pack our bags. So putting an end to those types of evictions
00:22will be a huge step forward in protecting tenants. It's an enormous issue. These no-fault evictions
00:27are a leading cause of homelessness. That means that the record number of children in temporary
00:31accommodation right now, 150,000 of them, a national scandal, is largely in part to these
00:38types of evictions. So we're hearing all sorts of stories from tenants every single day who are
00:42being forced out and we're predicting that at least 15,000 people will be evicted through
00:47bailiffs in the next six months if they don't get this law through sooner. The glaring gap right now
00:53is that so many renters can't afford to pay their rent. So that's a problem in terms of how affordable
00:58our homes are, but it also means that we don't have security in our homes because if a rent
01:02rise is happening, unchecked, the landlord has no limit to how much they can raise it by, then that
01:08can force people out of the door anyway regardless of whether they're being evicted. So we need the
01:12government to step in and slam the brakes on soaring rents. So to tackle the unaffordable rents
01:17that we're facing, the most common sense and quick answer to that is to slam the brakes on soaring
01:22rents to limit the amount by which landlords can raise the rent when someone's in the home.
01:28Wider than this, because it's not just one thing that needs to happen, wider than this we need more
01:32homes to be built, particularly social homes and affordable homes where people want to live.
01:36The government has a big ambition with that so we'll be holding them to account as they deliver
01:40it and we also need to make sure that benefits are in line with what people are being charged
01:45for their housing. So we need the government to increase the rate of benefits for people who most
01:49need to have that money to afford their rent.
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