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Ulises Moreno-Tabarez

Kath Scanlon

May 10th, 2016

Would a rent cap work for tenants facing £1,000-a-month rises? Kath Scanlon weighs in on The Guardian

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Ulises Moreno-Tabarez

Kath Scanlon

May 10th, 2016

Would a rent cap work for tenants facing £1,000-a-month rises? Kath Scanlon weighs in on The Guardian

0 comments

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

With various solutions being proposed to help relieve London’s housing crisis, rent control may be one of these ways. In Harriett Meyer’s article for The Guardian, Kath Scanlon reports on the difficulties that may come up in implementing such a system in the UK.

Here is an except from the article:

“Germany is often held up as the model of stabilisation, with many people living in the same property for life. Kath Scanlon, a researcher at the London School of Economics, authored a 2011 report entitled Towards a sustainable private rented sector, and said it would be difficult to replicate the system in the UK.

“The Berlin system requires a sophisticated database of private sector rents, and that’s an area where statistics in this country are very poor. Imposing rent caps would be perceived by landlords as the final nail in the coffin after the reduction in mortgage interest rate relief and the new stamp duty surcharge,” she says.”

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About the author

Ulises Moreno-Tabarez

Ulises is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Geography and Environment. He works as a Research Associate and Web Editor for LSE London. As an interdisciplinary geographer, his work focuses on migration, performance, development, and politics of race and ethnicity.

Kath Scanlon

Kath Scanlon is Distinguished Policy Fellow at LSE London. She has a wide range of research interests including comparative housing policy, comparative mortgage finance, and migration. Her research is grounded in economics but also draws on techniques and perspectives from other disciplines including geography and sociology.

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