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Stop providers of Buy to Let mortgages discriminating against benefits claimants

Submitted on Friday 23rd March 2018

Published on Tuesday 3rd April 2018

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 3rd October 2018

Signatures: 73

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BBC ~ Children ~ housing crisis ~ UK

Petition Action

Stop providers of Buy to Let mortgages discriminating against benefits claimants

Petition Details

The housing crisis in the UK is being exacerbated by the main lenders for Buy to Let mortgages, including TSB, Santander, Virgin and NatWest, stating that landlords must not let their properties to housing benefit claimants. We call on the government to make this discriminatory practice illegal.

Additional Information

More than 120,000 children are living in temporary homes according to the public accounts committee (01/05/2017 The Times)

The number of tenants in the private sector receiving state help has risen by 50 per cent to almost 1.5 million since the financial crisis as wages stagnate and rents rise (01/05/2017

The combination of economic pressures means more and more vulnerable tenants are being pushed out of the private rented sector (Sean Tompkins, Chief Executive of Rics bbc.co.uk 09/07/2017)


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