Call to freeze all UK private rents to help 1m workers at risk of losing jobs

Thinktank wants three-month suspension during Covid-19 pandemic to protect financially vulnerable

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More than a million renters in Britain risk losing their jobs in the coronavirus pandemic and should be protected by an immediate rent freeze, according to a thinktank.

Calling on the government to suspend all private rents for three months as an emergency measure to protect those most at risk, the New Economics Foundation (NEF) said 1.2 million people living in privately rented homes could fall into severe financial hardship otherwise.

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