Call for rights for domestic renters

Domestic renters should be given similar rights to commercial tenants due to the number of people losing their tenancy due to properties being put on the market.

That is according to national housing charity Threshold, which has released figures for the first three months of this year showing that it helped some 3,640 clients facing tenancy insecurity and handled more than 19,000 calls.

More than 30% of cases it dealt with were related to tenancy terminations, with 704 related to tenancy termination by a landlord. This is a 4% increase on the number of people contacting Threshold over the issue for the same period last year.