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📢 UNVEILED: The ‘Renters Deserve Better’ gallery.

Every photo, story and word here is real – sent in from one of England’s 10 million renters. Today, we delivered it to Westminster to show the government why we deserve better than this broken, unfair system.
The new Housing Minister @redditchrachel has picked an urgent brief in government – to give renters the security and rights we deserve, delivered through the long-awaited #RentersReformBill.

The Bill must be top priority - and this gallery is proof. Shelter colleagues stood ou...
Renters have been failed for too long. Now, the Minister has the power to change renters’ lives for the better. That’s why we’re at her offices at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).

Amelia explains more 👇
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🚨'No kids’ win 🚨

Mum of four and NHS nurse Lexi has won a landmark complaint, finding 'no kids' rental practices to be unfair.

This is a HUGE win and sets a precedent: letting agents who bar renters with children will be in breach of The Property Ombudsman Code of Practice.🧵 Photo of Lexi and her four children. Above them, there's a g
'Our children were being discriminated against and no one was listening.'

Lexi was handed a Section 21 ‘no-fault’ eviction on Christmas Eve 2020. In a stressful hunt for a new home, she found landlords or letting agents repeatedly refused to rent to a family with four children.
Our legal team supported Lexi to challenge this injustice. And finally, The Property Ombudsman (TPO) confirmed that blanket bans on renting to parents are a breach of their Code of Practice for Letting Agents.
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As part of the #RentersReformBill, the government is proposing that we move from fixed-term tenancies to open-ended ones. But what does this actually mean for renters? Time for another housing thread 👇 Text on black background: Why open ended tenancies are good
If you’re a private renter in England, the chances are that you have what’s called an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST). This includes a mixture of fixed term and periodic tenancies. What’s the difference between the two, we hear you ask? Let’s start with fixed term tenancies 👀
A fixed term tenancy commits both a landlord and tenant for an agreed period – typically 6 or 12 months. During this time:

❌ Landlords can’t serve a Section 21 eviction notice
❌ Tenants can’t leave without the landlord’s agreement
❌ Rent (typically) won’t go up Text on black background: What’s a fixed term tenancy?
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