Online petitions don’t actually change things, do they? What a silly waste of time. Politicians don’t actually listen to…the people, right? Millennials are so naïve, look at them indulging their narcissism with online clicktivism.
Or not. After seven months of campaigning to Make Renting Fair at The Debrief, working with the likes of Lib Dem peer Baroness Olly Grender (whose Renters’ Rights Bill is in its committee stage in the House of Lords), and delivering a petition signed by a quarter of a million people to Downing Street, we’ve won in our aim: the Government has announced a ban on letting agency fees for tenants in what can only be described as a U-turn.
As part of today’s Autumn Statement, Chancellor Philip Hammond is announcing the move. Letting agents are, as you might expect, up in arms and taking serious umbrage because the gravy train that is this country’s buy-to-let private rental market is finally facing scrutiny.
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