{"id":97172,"date":"2018-09-03T23:33:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T16:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fighting-for-the-rights-of-londons-renters-letters\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T00:04:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T17:04:12","slug":"fighting-for-the-rights-of-londons-renters-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fighting-for-the-rights-of-londons-renters-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting for the rights of London\u2019s renters | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIf renters come together, we\u2019re powerful enough to realise the big changes our housing system needs, write Shiran Mohamed and Anabel Bennett L\u00f3pezAs private renters in London, we were interested to read your feature (\u2018Rent was astronomical\u2019: people on why they left London in their 30s, theguardian.com, 29\u00a0August). Most of us don\u2019t have the casual luxury of uprooting ourselves from London \u2013 our home \u2013 for a new life in Bristol, the\u00a0Midlands or the North. Many\u00a0of\u00a0us grew up in London. Our\u00a0families live in London. Our\u00a0jobs are in London. Our friends and lives are all here.London\u2019s housing crisis is not just about white gen Xers or millennials in their 30s, anxious about their homeownership dreams sliding out of view. Many renters are black, working-class people on low incomes. We pay exorbitant rents to live in shoddy,\u00a0cramped, even dangerous\u00a0housing. We can be evicted at a moment\u2019s notice, through no fault of our own. Meanwhile, thousands of Londoners\u00a0are facing homelessness because they cannot keep up with the extortionate rents and fees that characterise the private rental\u00a0market. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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