article_snippet.sent: Under the proposals, landlords would have to offer three-year tenancies and would be banned from raising rent above inflation during this time.
article_snippet.sent: Alex Hilton, director of Generation Rent, said three-year tenancies were welcome but the proposal would give landlords an incentive to evict landlords tenants and would not keep rent down, adding: ‘
article_snippet.sent: This is because landlords have no plans to limit rent rises between tenancies
article_snippet.sent: – or after your first three years are up.
article_snippet.sent: Worse than this, Labour’s planning new ways for landlords to evict you within that period, for example to sell your home or get your home back for other reasons.
article_snippet.sent: because that’s the only way These loopholes will be able to put rent up in the first three years.
article_snippet.sent: Most buy-to-let mortgages specify maximum tenancies of one year.
article_snippet.sent: Labour sources said these landlords would be able to offer short tenancies