Property News · April 24, 2019

MPs call on landlords to scrap 'no DSS' clauses in rental ads


Critics compare refusal of people on benefits to ‘no blacks, no Irish, no dogs’ signsMPs have demanded landlords and letting agents end the practice of screening out people on benefits after hearing claims that “no DSS” clauses have become the 2019 equivalent of “no blacks, no Irish, no dogs” notices.During a hearing into the widespread refusal of landlords to rent properties to those on benefits, the Commons work and pensions select committee on Wednesday confronted the director of Your Move, a national online lettings agency, with an advert it published in March for a home in Telford, Shropshire, that read: “No DSS. Small dogs considered.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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