Mayor Sadiq Khan to look at imposing rent controls in London

Exclusive: Arguments in favour of capping rent inflation ‘overwhelming’, Khan tells MP

The mayor of London has hinted that he is considering introducing rent controls across the capital in a radical overhaul of private rental laws.

Sadiq Khan told an MP that London needed to adopt a “strategic approach to rent stabilisation and control”, since the arguments in favour of capping rent inflation are becoming “overwhelming”.

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