Questions to the Mayor of London – answered at on 1 April 2019.
Will you seek powers to regulate short-term lettings as well as private rents as part of work on your new blueprint for stabilising or controlling private rents in London?
My work on the London Model of tenancy reform, and on a blueprint for an effective system of rent control in London, focuses on dwellings let as homes, rather than short-term lets.
However, I have also been clear that regulation of the short-term lettings industry must be improved. I have been working with the industry to promote effective self-regulation, but if there is not sufficient progress, I will be forced to call for legislative change from the national Government