Not as much freedom from anxiety reported for tenants (7)
I believe the answer is:
lessees
'for tenants' is the definition.
(lessee is a kind of tenant)
'not as much freedom from anxiety reported' is the wordplay.
'not' becomes 'less' (I've seen this in other clues).
'as' becomes 'eg' (I've seen this in other clues).
'much' means to remove the last letter (much but not all of the word).
'freedom from anxiety' becomes 'ease' (I've seen this in another clue).
'reported' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'ease' sounds like 'es'.
'eg' with its last letter removed is 'e'.
'less'+'e'+'es'='LESSEES'
(Other definitions for lessees that I've seen before include "People renting" , "rent payers" .)