The Inexperienced Get together has formally adopted a controversial new coverage aiming to “abolish landlords”, following a vote at its celebration convention in Bournemouth on Sunday.
The movement, titled ‘Abolish Landlords’, handed with sturdy assist from celebration members and is now a part of the Inexperienced Get together’s official platform. Nevertheless, celebration co-leader Zack Polanski shouldn’t be required to make use of the movement’s actual wording in future campaigns or messaging.
In line with PoliticsHome, the coverage outlines 5 key measures a future Inexperienced-led authorities would pursue to section out non-public landlords. These embrace introducing lease controls, scrapping the Proper to Purchase scheme, making use of enterprise charges to short-term lets corresponding to Airbnbs, and imposing double council tax on long-term empty properties.
The transfer marks a daring shift in housing coverage, positioning the Greens as one of the crucial radical events on property reform within the UK.
Carla Denyer, Inexperienced MP for Bristol Central, stated: “It [the policy] handle the housing disaster, empowers tenants and improves their wellbeing. It comprises a spread of insurance policies which, over time, would cut back the proportion of the housing market that’s privately rented, and improve the proportion of socially rented properties.
“The insurance policies, a lot of which have been contained in our 2024 manifesto, embrace the introduction of lease controls and giving councils powers to purchase properties when landlords promote,” she stated.
Denyer added: “The movement additionally requires the mass constructing of council properties, which was one other manifesto dedication, and provides a proposal for a state-owned housing producer to assist these efforts and innovate on housing design and manufacture.”
