{"id":100506,"date":"2018-10-25T21:32:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T14:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/were-in-a-new-era-of-slum-landlords-and-tenant-squalor-david-lammy\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T15:03:07","slug":"were-in-a-new-era-of-slum-landlords-and-tenant-squalor-david-lammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/were-in-a-new-era-of-slum-landlords-and-tenant-squalor-david-lammy\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re in a new era of slum landlords and tenant squalor | David Lammy"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe government must build more housing, expose exploitative landlords and give local authorities power to punish themIn the 1950s and 60s, Peter Rachman gained infamy for his exploitation and bullying of tenants. Mostly targeting new immigrant communities from the Caribbean, he gamed rental laws and sub-divided hundreds of flats in west London, extracting maximum profit from minimum service.Rachman would have felt at home in Theresa May\u2019s Britain. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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