Generation Rent has welcomed a recent report into the Welsh PRS, which included its proposal to compensate ‘no fault’ evictees.
Released last week, the report — prepared by Wales’ local government and housing committee — made 13 recommendations to the Welsh parliament.
This included compensating tenants at the centre of ‘no fault’ evictions, allowing them to keep the last two months’ rent of a tenancy in these situations.
Generation Rent made this proposal to the committee in March 2024, with the tenancy advocacy group highlighting the average cost of an unwanted move is £2,216.
The report published this proposal, commenting that it found “merit” in what Generation Rent was arguing for.
Generation Rent has celebrated this inclusion and commented “this represents a significant step towards making evictions fairer and less common.”
The advocacy group is now urging the Welsh government to “seriously explore” proposals to compensate evicted tenants, and is also calling on the UK government to do more on no-fault evictions.
This, Generation Rent argues, should be included in the Renters’ Rights Bill that is currently moving through parliamentary processes: “We also call on the government in Westminster to implement no-fault eviction compensation as part of the Renters’ Rights Bill.
“We made the proposal a key part of our written evidence to the Bill committee just this week, and Generation Rent chief executive Ben Twomey advocated for it during his oral evidence in Parliament on Tuesday.
“Every nation of the UK must end unfair evictions, and seriously consider compensation for when tenants still experience so much harm and cost through no fault of their own.”