05/04/2020
Our open letter has been endorsed by ACORN Leeds, Leeds University Union, Leeds Beckett SU, Alex Sobel MP , Hilary Benn, Momentum Leeds and Leeds Young Labour.
We are calling upon all providers of student rented accommodation to meet the following 5 demands set out by the National Union of Students:
1. Ensure all tenants and landlords have access, and implement, clear and holistic public health advice.
2. Every landlord must offer students a no-penalty early release from tenancy contracts for the current and next academic year.
3. End all evictions, for all renters, for the duration of the crisis.
4. All renters must have their rents subsidised, significantly reduced or waived entirely for 6 months.
5. Suspend all rent increases for the next 12 months.
Open letter from student renters. We are calling upon all providers of rented accommodation to students to meet the following 5 demands set out by the National Union of Students: Ensure all tenants and landlords have access, and implement, clear and holistic public health advice. Every landl...