Overview

• Delegates at the Bournemouth conference passed a motion making the effective abolition of private landlordism official Green Party policy.
• The policy outlines five steps: rent controls, ending Right to Buy, higher taxes on empty homes and short-lets, abolishing buy-to-let lending, and new council purchase powers for certain properties.
• Green MP Carla Denyer says the program does not literally ban all landlords and aims to reduce private renting over time while boosting social housing.
• MP Adrian Ramsay’s register shows he co-owns a rented Norfolk home; he says he keeps the rent below market and does not plan to be a landlord long-term.
• Housing academics told The Big Issue that an overnight abolition would cause immediate upheaval, likely drive house prices down and strain mortgages in the medium term, and could later align prices more closely with earnings; around 4.6 million households rent privately and about 2.5 million people are landlords.