Property News · January 23, 2019

Councils need more tools to cut off rogue landlords’ profits | Letter


Brent councillor Eleanor Southwood says the London borough is leading the way in cracking down on those who make tenants’ lives a miseryI agree wholeheartedly with outrage about rogue landlords profiting from housing benefit (Law must change, says council that paid £500,000 to rogue landlord, 22 January). But focusing frustration on Brent council – where we’re leading the way in cracking down on landlords who make their tenants’ lives a misery – is regrettable.Since 2016 we’ve secured over 140 prosecutions and in excess of £1.1m in fines, and issued over 100 civil penalty notices; last month we secured a historic victory by using the Proceeds of Crime Act in response to finding 31 people crammed into a four-bedroom house. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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