Londoners back rent controls as city faces 'cost of rent crisis' Londoners have backed rent controls after a City Hall politician declared the capital was facing a ‘cost of rent crisis’—with the city’s over two million renters handing over on average over 40 per cent of their wages to landlords.
In 2019, he published a report in which he expressed support for rent controls and said he would seek to establish a commission to design what an effective system of rent control could look like.
A report published by Green Assembly member Zoë Garbett on Friday called on Labour Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to set up a commission to examine how rent controls could operate in the capital.
Another renter, who described herself as living in a ‘mouldy’ two-bed property in Bromley with her partner and another housemate, said rent controls couldn’t come soon enough.
Sadiq Khan currently lacks powers from central government to impose rent controls in the private rented sector.
