The New Statesman.

Millions of leaseholders in England and Wales will get their ground rents capped at £250 per year

as part of Labour's long-promised overhaul of a hated system.

Reforms also include proposals to ban the sale of new leasehold flats in a bit to give people

greater control over their homes. I'm Anoushichaelian and joining me today is Will Dunn.

Hi Will. Hello. We're back talking about leasehold. I feel like this is a sort of perennial topic

for us. It is, yeah. And it's one that is extremely politically significant because it affects millions of people across

country, several million people who I think there's good evidence that people will vote

differently based on this issue because it's a lot of money for some people.

It affects whether or not they could move house, and because it

comes with a sense of injustice and a thing that needs changing, which appeals not just to the

centre parties, but I notice that both the Greens and Reform talk a lot about this issue for

that reason, because it's a real vote winner. Yeah, I think I've I've written about

this before and described them as the cladding classes. And, you know, let's let's get to the

crux of this before we talk about the individual reforms that are coming in. But the fundamental

injustice that we see in leasehold, particularly since the building safety crisis, which meant

remedial works on all of

these blocks of flats post-Gremfell, is that ultimately the leaseholder is treated as the landlord

when things go wrong and the tenant when the landlord seeks to profit. So having to foot the bill

for building works, but no power over the maintenance work that your block might need, for example. So I'm a leaseholder and their building works but no power over the maintenance work that your block might need for example.

So I'm a leaseholder and there are building works taking place on my block famously in the

newspaper, New Statesman office.

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