{"id":554,"date":"2026-05-11T10:40:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:40:03","slug":"thinktank-calls-for-double-lock-england-private-rent-cap-to-ease-living-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Thinktank calls for \u2018double lock\u2019 England private rent cap to ease living costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Influential IPPR proposes capping rents at whichever is lower of consumer price inflation or wage growth<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/may\/11\/keir-starmer-labour-leadership-speech-angela-rayner-wes-streeting-andy-burnham-catherine-west-may-elections-uk-politics-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the thinktanks closest to the Labour government is urging ministers to introduce private sector rent controls in England, as the chancellor weighs up how to ease a surge in living costs caused by the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p>The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a paper calling for a rent \u201cdouble lock\u201d, which would link rent increases to either wages or inflation, depending on which was lower.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/11\/ippr-thinktank-double-lock-england-private-rent-cap-living-costs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influential IPPR proposes capping rents at whichever is lower of consumer price inflation or wage growth UK politics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}