Renting

Campaigning for change

Learn about how our campaigning is changing the renting system for the better.

• The Renters' Rights Act
  Find out what the Renters’ Rights Act means for the lives of England’s 11 million private renters.

• Community organising
  Find out more about our community-led campaigns and how you can get involved.

The progress we have made

Together with our supporters, we have campaigned hard to improve the renting system.

• Together, we won new rights for renters
  Read about how we campaigned for the Renters’ Rights Act, and fought for it to be as strong as possible.

• We won an end to the four-year housing benefit freeze
  Read about how our campaigning helped make the government finally announce that from April 2024, LHA rates would be restored and housing benefit unfrozen.

• We changed the law on revenge evictions
  Find out how we changed the law to protect private renters from being evicted for making a complaint about poor conditions.

• We got unfair letting agent fees banned
  Read about how we campaigned to get these extortionate fees banned and then later made sure that a loophole was closed to further protect renters.

• We're working to end income discrimination
  Find out about the progress we have made in stopping landlords from discriminating against people who receive benefits or have children.

Get advice

Understand your new rights as a private renter in England.

• Advice on how renters' rights are changing
  Find out what the reforms in the Renters’ Rights Act mean for private renters as they start to come into force from 1 May 2026.