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loads of rents will go up in the next week (or few weeks if labour get in).
AIUI Labour's plan is that rents can be set to anything at the start of a tenancy, then rent increases will be controlled for 3 years, after which the tenancy and rent is renegotiated again from scratch, without control.
Seems to me it will just lead to big rises every three years rather than smaller ones every year and averaged over the three years nothing will change.
As with most policies, if you want actual, considered, significant change you'll need to look somewhere other than the mainstream, majority-approval-seeking parties.
Some voters are landlords, see? And you can't alienate voters.
Hefty
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I wonder if this talk of capping rises has meant that loads of rents will go up in the next week (or few weeks if labour get in).