Rent Tribunal Decisions
Rent tribunal decisions are published publically online. You can use this link to find rent tribunal decisions for houses in your area. Make sure you select decisions labelled ‘Sub category - Market Rents'.
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Learn more about challenging rent rises, the evidence you need for tribunal and why we need to fight for rent control.
Learn more about challenging rent rises, the evidence you need for tribunal and why we need to fight for rent control.
Rent tribunals
Tenants unions and community groups across the country are holding in person and online support sessions for people who want to use rent tribunals to challenge their rent rises.
Resource Resource A Short Guide to Resisting Rent Rises
If you can’t make a support session, you can use this short one-page guide with the basic information on how to challenge a Section 13 rent rise here.
DownloadResource Section 13 Checker
Use this short one-page guide to check whether a rent rise from your landlord is valid.
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Rent controls
Tenants unions, housing groups and researchers across the country agree we need rent controls. If rent controls were in place, we wouldn’t need to go through rent tribunal process to resist rent rises. Once we win rent controls, these resources explain why rent controls are essential.
Resource Why we must all join the fight for rent controls
This booklet, created by the London Renters Union, is a call to action for all ordinary people in London and beyond to join our fight. It tells the story of how our rotten housing system is destroying our communities, before explaining how rent controls can be transformative for our lives, our political system, and our ability to continue organising for power. It is informed not just by the available data and research, but also by the experiences of the thousands of London Renters Union members living in and fighting against our rigged system every single day.
DownloadResource Getting Rents Under Control: How to Make London Rents Affordable
This report by the New Economics Foundation analyses the benefits and risks of different types of rent controls, looking at specific examples of existing models from elsewhere, and drawing out lessons for London. Based on NEF's analysis of models of rent control, this report sets out the following six building blocks that must form the basis of any rent control policy for London.
DownloadResource Rent Controls Mythbusting
Written by Living Rent, the Scottish tenants and community union. We hear a lot of myths about rent controls - including from well-meaning people who should know better. In this resource four of the more common ones are debunked.
Go toResource Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
Written by housing barrister Nick Bano, Against Landlords lays out a radical reinterpretation of the housing crisis, arguing that the cause of the crisis is that landlords have been allowed to profit from our need for shelter. It also sets out a path for how we can transform the housing system so that it serves the needs of tenants. Published by Verso Books.
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