New analysis from Labour reveals the staggering hit to renters across South Cambs over the last two years, as the cost of living crisis continues to deepen for families throughout Britain.

The average monthly rise in rents across our region over the last two years is £169 (£2028 rise per year) – hitting South Cambs’ 10,181 renters to the tune of £20,647,068 per year.

Incredibly, Rishi Sunak failed to even mention the cost of living crisis at this years Conservative Party Conference in which his housing minister smeared renters as ‘weed-smoking bad people in gangs’.

Labour has called for real action to support renters including a Renters’ Charter, providing new certainty for renters, ending ‘no-fault’ evictions and introducing four-month notice periods for landlords.

Publishing the figures, South Cambs Labour’s housing spokesperson Luke Viner said,

Renters in South Cambs have taken a hammering from the Conservatives’ cost of living crisis over the last two years – yet at the Tory Conference, instead of the support they need, all they got were insults and inactivity.

“The truth is, the Conservatives crashed the economy and the rest of us will pay the price for years to come – and renters face a double whammy. Rents are soaring, and soaring interest rates have put that first home even further out of reach.  As a young person in my mid-twenties who has been renting in this area for some time, these consequences of the failings of the Tory government are only too real to me.”