{"id":2291,"date":"2017-02-07T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T11:24:23","slug":"generation-rent-government-may-ready-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/news\/generation-rent-government-may-ready-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation Rent, the Government may be ready to help you out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In its housing white paper, the Government aims to turn its focus to Generation Rent and the lack of affordable housing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Government\u2019s latest pledge includes a closer look at new ways to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/02\/06\/lack-affordable-homes-stay\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">encourage building of more affordable homes across the country<\/a> as well as ways to encourage landlords to hand out longer tenancies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1WIMCYVEXG\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/02\/07\/britains-housing-white-paper-revealed-explained\/\">Britain\u2019s Housing White Paper: revealed and explained<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Britain\u2019s Housing White Paper: revealed and explained&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/02\/07\/britains-housing-white-paper-revealed-explained\/embed\/#?secret=e1uOmG7smx#?secret=1WIMCYVEXG\" data-secret=\"1WIMCYVEXG\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are determined to make housing more affordable and secure for ordinary working families and have a rental market that offers much more choice,&#8221; communities secretary Sajid Javid told City A.M.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We understand people are living longer in private rented accommodation which is why we are fixing this broken housing market so all types of home are more affordable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All of this signals a shift in the Government\u2019s focus ever since Theresa May took over from former PM David Cameron. Whilst Cameron\u2019s main intention was to turn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/01\/10\/generation-rent-number-homeowners-aged-25-halved\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Generation Rent into Generation Buy<\/a>, May\u2019s approach appears somewhat broader and sees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2017\/01\/23\/signs-hope-rental-market\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">the rental market<\/a> more as something that can add value to UK housing if done right.<\/p>\n<p>The scrapping of the letting agent fees which was announced during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2016\/11\/30\/autumn-statements-impact-uks-property-market\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Philip Hammond\u2019s first Autumn Statement<\/a>, which was only Step 1 on a long journey to make renting a choice rather than a last option.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"UDIQ2CQ4B7\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2016\/09\/22\/rising-age-generation-rent\/\">The rising age of Generation Rent<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The rising age of Generation Rent&#8221; &#8212; BuyAssociation Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2016\/09\/22\/rising-age-generation-rent\/embed\/#?secret=teKsmjadxU#?secret=UDIQ2CQ4B7\" data-secret=\"UDIQ2CQ4B7\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Labour, however, expectedly called the proposal \u201cdisappointing\u201d as it falls far behind what is actually needed.<\/p>\n<p>City A.M reports Labour shadow secretary for housing, John Healey, stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ministers continue to do next to nothing to help people who rent from a private landlord and have consistently blocked Labour&#8217;s attempts to change the law to control costs and give renters security. Ministers even voted down Labour&#8217;s efforts to ensure that private rented homes were simply fit for human habitation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its housing white paper, the Government aims to turn its focus to Generation Rent and the lack of affordable housing. The Government\u2019s latest pledge includes a closer look at new ways to encourage building of more affordable homes across the country as well as ways to encourage landlords to hand out longer tenancies. Britain\u2019s<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/news\/generation-rent-government-may-ready-help\/\" title=\"ReadGeneration Rent, the Government may be ready to help you out!\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":4523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[79,81,46,51],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-housing-market","tag-affordable-homes","tag-affordable-housing","tag-generation-rent","tag-home-ownership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096451,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/6096451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}