It’s time for rent control, and it’s time to put an end to greedy landlords. 

Rent is simply unaffordable in the UK, especially for young people aged 16-24, who spend on average  44.1% of their monthly earnings on rent. 

Imagine what you could spend your money on – if 44% didn’t go straight on housing. Food, family trips, plants and clothes. 

In areas like Kensington and Chelsea, renters spend 74.3% of their wages on rent.

Although the common ONS guideline is for people to spend no more than 30%  of their wages on rent, for many young people this has become simply unavoidable. 

Joseph Elliott, the lead analyst at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said: “High rents are locking people out of secure homes and driving poverty and homelessness.

Being a landlord is not a job –  it is a choice to capitalise and squeeze money out of societies most vulnerable. 

We need rent regulation in order to stop the housing crisis.

Young people cannot buy houses – and we can barely afford to rent them either.