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By Jessica Frank-Keyes Almost 200 days’ worth of a year’s salary going on rent. Homeownership inching out of reach. And average prices hitting their affordability ceiling. These are just a few of the headlines about the capital’s rental crisis City A.M. has published this year alone. And it’s a perennial problem Labour has promised to put right. Ahead of the election, the party devoted just shy of 1,000 words of its 142-page manifesto to its plans for house building, the planning system, and – yes – the private rented sector. It made key pledges to “immediately” abolish Section 21 ‘no fault’ e…

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