Member

I thank Shelter, the Renter’s Reform Coalition and Generation Rent for their engagement on the contents of the Bill. I wholeheartedly agree with their assessment that affordability in the private rented sector must be tackled head-on. Specifically on amendments 5, 6 and 9, it is all well and good the Government saying that they do not support rent stabilisation, but as a country, we have to come back to this issue. That may not happen tomorrow or next month, but inevitably at some point we will have to, because the private rented sector has lost all sense of proportion, and on that, nothing will change. The problem of affordability will continue to get worse.