This week the government had a chance to stand up for renters by making changes to the #RentersReformBill to ensure a strong and loophole free Bill.

Instead, they made concessions back bench MPs.

🧵on the committee stage of the bill so far – and our next steps. The government has promised a bill with ‘quality, affordability, and fairness at its heart’.

But this week amendments that could have offered exactly that were rejected and renter’s experiences ignored. 🧵2/4

📢🥳 AMAZING NEWS! The Chancellor has announced that housing benefit will be UNFROZEN to cover the bottom third of local rents.

With homelessness at a record high, this will be an essential lifeline to keep people in their homes.

#AutumnStatement ❄️Unfreezing housing benefit will:

- Help people who've been struggling with shortfalls to their rent

- Prevent homelessness by helping people to afford a new home if they have to move

- Help people who are homeless to get out of temporary accommodation and into a settled home

📢 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.

🚨'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.🧵 '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.

After a Budget where beer was mentioned more than housing, what will the next year look like for renters already struggling with rocketing rents and the lack of affordable homes?

We explore - a #Budget2023 thread. Firstly, the government missed the crucial chance to unfreeze local housing allowance.

LHA determines the amount of housing benefit or universal credit housing allowance that private renters can receive and has been frozen since 2020. In that time, rents have rocketed.

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 👇 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 👀

Let’s talk about landlord accountability.

The government have promised renters a National Landlord Register - here's what a good one should look like 👇🧵 When it comes to picking a place to call home, knowing that your landlord is decent and that your home is safe to live in are essential. So why is there no way for renters to check this?

Today’s #LevellingUp White Paper shows the government understands the problem.

⬇️ Here’s a quick run-down of what we know and what we don’t know 👇

What we know: the government is going to build more social homes 🏡

What we don’t know: how many, when or how 🤷‍♀️

If you believe everyone has the right to a home, here are things you can do to help make that a reality this #WorldHomelessDay 🏡

A thread 👇 Homelessness can't be solved without homes.

📋 One thing you can do today - join the call to #BuildSocialHousing.
campaigns.shelter.org.uk/lets-build-bet…

Save this for when you need it and RT for anyone else who needs it. #WorldHomelessDay

Thread 👇 👋 Say hello and ask if they'd like help.

Why it's crucial that the government invests in social housing now - a thread⬇️ #BuildSocialHousing

Today, we release our #FromTheFrontline report covering Universal Credit and local housing allowance (LHA): shltr.org.uk/hjm

We've used real life experiences to show how #UniversalCredit and #LHA are pushing people towards hardship and poverty.

Settle in for a /thread... Our research shows that in 97% of areas a small family can’t afford even the cheapest local rents with #LHA.

This creates a shortfall between people’s rent and what they get in housing allowance; 65% of households have a shortfall. #FromTheFrontline