The price hikes have been exacerbated by a shortage of supply and, in London, the problem is even more acute with rents up nearly double the national average to £1,465 and the average length of tenancy increased from 12 to 18 months as renters are priced out of the sales market, the report said.
"Its policy objectives have been undermined by the realpolitik of public debt, so local authorities will be compelled to bring in fixed term tenancies and increased rents, without keeping the income, while housing associations will face no such strictures".
New model tenancies will also increase security of tenure for tenants and prevent landlords from asking tenants to leave simply because a fixed-term contract has ended.
This was mainly an urban phenomenon, however; rural life was barely affected except for what may have been gradually increasing tenancy and a slow impoverishment that sent rural unemployed into cities and armies or into banditry.
Parents, children and grandparents from the New Era estate in Hackney travelled across the capital on buses to the Westbrook Partners HQ in Mayfair amid growing political support for their cause and a new agreement by the company not to change tenancy agreements or increase rents before July 2015.
Meanwhile, the number of new tenancies across England and Wales in September increased by 9.2% compared to the same time last year.
Current policy [pdf] calls on "care managers to have an increased focus on home ownership and assured tenancies as a model for housing and support".
Furthermore, the growth in burglaries is not distributed evenly among tenancy types: there has been a trend towards an increased proportion of burglaries in multi-dwelling buildings.
But even taking that into account, he told the BBC: "If you roll that out to 31,000 tenancies we will be increasing our bad debt provision by a further £2-3m a year".
This annual rise is half that of a year ago, says LSL Property Services whose figures show that rents increased by 3.2 per cent in the year to December 2012, while the number of new tenancies across England and Wales increased by 7.7 per cent compared to December 2012.
