{"id":103124,"date":"2019-01-20T22:32:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T15:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/council-pays-rogue-landlord-500000-in-housing-benefit\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T23:06:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T16:06:01","slug":"council-pays-rogue-landlord-500000-in-housing-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/council-pays-rogue-landlord-500000-in-housing-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Council pays rogue landlord \u00a3500,000 in housing benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBernard McGowan, who has \u00a330m in property, received money from Brent despite being bannedA repeatedly convicted landlord, ruled unfit to rent out property in a north London borough in 2015, has since received more than \u00a3500,000 in housing benefit payments from the same council that banned him.The discovery that a local authority is directly paying public money to a landlord its own officers describe as \u201crogue\u201d is the latest example of the ineffective regulations designed to police the private rented sector\u2019s worst offenders. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Bernard McGowan, who has \u00a330m in property, received money from Brent despite being bannedA repeatedly...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-qPi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":103156,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/council-urges-ban-on-housing-benefit-payments-to-rogue-landlords\/","url_meta":{"origin":103124,"position":0},"title":"Council urges ban on housing benefit payments to rogue landlords","date":"January 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Brent paid \u00a3500,000 to Bernard McGowan despite him failing the \u2018fit and proper\u2019 testA London council that banned a rogue landlord and then directly paid him more than \u00a3500,000 in housing benefit has called on central government to legislate to prevent local authorities from making similar payments in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":103194,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/councils-need-more-tools-to-cut-off-rogue-landlords-profits-letter\/","url_meta":{"origin":103124,"position":1},"title":"Councils need more tools to cut off rogue landlords\u2019 profits | Letter","date":"January 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Brent councillor Eleanor Southwood says the London borough is leading the way in cracking down on those who make tenants\u2019 lives a miseryI agree wholeheartedly with outrage about rogue landlords profiting from housing benefit (Law must change, says council that paid \u00a3500,000 to rogue landlord, 22 January). 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