Renters’ Rights Act 2025

A vote to support means

• —Provides housing security: Tenants gain protection against sudden eviction without cause, allowing families to plan long-term and invest in their homes without fear of arbitrary removal.
• —Controls rent inflation: Restricts how frequently and by how much landlords can raise rents, protecting low-income renters from being priced out of their homes and making budgeting more predictable.
• —Improves living standards: Strengthens enforcement of property maintenance standards, ensuring renters have access to safe, healthy housing with reliable heating, plumbing, and structural integrity.
• —Reduces homelessness: By preventing arbitrary evictions and protecting vulnerable tenants, the act could reduce rough sleeping and homelessness among people currently in private rental accommodation.

A vote to oppose means

• —Reduces landlord investment: Stricter regulations and lower profit margins may discourage private landlords from maintaining properties or investing in new rental stock, potentially reducing housing availability and quality.
• —Increases housing costs: Landlords may pass on compliance costs and reduced returns through higher rents for new tenancies, offsetting tenant protections and making rental housing less affordable overall.
• —Complicates evictions of problem tenants: Longer notice periods and tighter eviction rules make it harder for landlords to remove tenants who damage property, cause antisocial behaviour, or refuse to pay rent.
• —Creates market distortion: Heavy regulation of private rentals may push landlords to sell property or exit the market entirely, reducing rental supply and potentially increasing homelessness if the social housing sector cannot absorb displaced renters.