Submitted on Monday 31st October 2022
Rejected on Monday 7th November 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Allow single tenants to declare new occupants without a joint tenancy contract
Allow for single tenants to declare new occupant without the restrictions of a joint tenancy.
In the case of a joint tenancy where the single occupant adds new tenant, review limitations of clauses to return the contract to original occupant with enough notice if a satisfactory reason is given.
Currently, joint tenancies can trap people in dangerous situations where they are responsible for half of the rent if they leave, even after domestic abuse. There is no escape from this financially or sometimes practically, if they are the original tenant, and it can lead to further abuse and trauma which is hard to recover from. I want to help others who have been in similar situations and know how much this is needed. There must be options for people experiencing this.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.
Decisions about whether to require all occupants of a property to be joint tenants are a matter for individual landlords, not the UK Government or Parliament.
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