A campaigner is calling on the Welsh government to introduce rent controls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adam Johannes is a member of The People’s Assembly Wales, which is staging a protest against rising living costs in Cardiff on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Vale of Glamorgan Council reported receiving around 7,000 affordable housing applications last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s nearly one thousand more applications than in 2019, while the council backlog on social homes is three times higher than 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The council say the current climate of rising living costs “has led to an increasing number of households being squeezed out of homeownership and the private rented sector.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Mr Johannes believes that even if nothing can be done to stop rising house prices, the government should step in on rent costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We need the Welsh Government to start imposing rent controls and really taking on private landlords and standing up for Tenants,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People in the Vale of Glamorgan have suffered more than most when it comes to rising house prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between July 2020 and July 2021 house prices rose by 24% – the second-largest increase in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Vale, along with Monmouthshire, has, proportionately, the highest number of homes valued at more than one million pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Francis Martin, a first-time buyer looking for a home in Cardiff, has been trying to buy a house for over a year and says rising prices are making it difficult. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“What’s the price of the next one going to be? I am coming close to my limit of, I am going to be priced out of the market,” she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I asked to describe her experience of getting on the property ladder, she used the words “excitement, fear, trepidation, hope and complete and utter despair”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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