{"id":5027208,"date":"2019-11-04T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=5027208"},"modified":"2023-11-07T12:07:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T11:07:25","slug":"election-2019-manifesto-how-to-help-the-uk-housing-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2019\/11\/04\/election-2019-manifesto-how-to-help-the-uk-housing-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2019 manifesto: how to help the UK housing market"},"content":{"rendered":"
The “once in a generation” general election set to take place in December should lead to more clarity over Brexit, but what about wider issues like the state of the country’s housing market?<\/strong><\/p>\n Whatever effect the political deadlock regarding Brexit has had on the UK property sector, the general election penned for 12th December should help bring more certainty to the country’s economy. However, while our departure (or lack of as the case may be) from the EU may be at the forefront of politicians’ minds going into the election, it will be about much more than that for voters.<\/p>\n The Residential Landlords Association (RLA), which represents tens of thousands of landlords and property investors across the country, has released a six-point manifesto detailing what it believes should be the focus of the future government in relation to the country’s housing market.<\/p>\n David Smith, policy director for the RLA, said: \u201cFor too long we have let the actions of a minority of landlords who bring the sector into disrepute dictate the debate around rented housing. Whilst we must find and root out such people we cannot let it distract from the positive news in the sector.<\/p>\n \u201cThe vast majority of landlords and tenants enjoy good relations, with many tenants staying long term in their rental properties. It is important that we build upon this record, ensuring pro-growth policies to ensure a sufficient supply of homes to rent, supporting vulnerable tenants and ensuring tenants and landlords can access justice more quickly if things do go wrong.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He added: \u201cWe call on all parties to accept our positive, pragmatic programme for the sector and end the unnecessary scaremongering which is causing many tenants to live in fear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The “once in a generation” general election set to take place in December should lead to more clarity over Brexit, but what about wider issues like the state of the country’s housing market? Whatever effect the political deadlock regarding Brexit has had on the UK property sector, the general election penned for 12th December should… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":4023429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,6],"tags":[344,27],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027208"}],"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=5027208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6098217,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027208\/revisions\/6098217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4023429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5027208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5027208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The six points in the manifesto<\/h4>\n
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Building on the positives in the sector<\/h4>\n