{"id":103156,"date":"2019-01-21T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/council-urges-ban-on-housing-benefit-payments-to-rogue-landlords\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T22:04:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:04:35","slug":"council-urges-ban-on-housing-benefit-payments-to-rogue-landlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/council-urges-ban-on-housing-benefit-payments-to-rogue-landlords\/","title":{"rendered":"Council urges ban on housing benefit payments to rogue landlords"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBrent 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 future.The move by Brent came after the Guardian revealed how the borough had made repeated payments of taxpayer money to Bernard McGowan, who boasts a \u00a330m property empire and failed Brent council\u2019s \u201cfit and proper\u201d test in 2015. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Brent paid \u00a3500,000 to Bernard McGowan despite him failing the \u2018fit and proper\u2019 testA London...<\/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-103156","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-qPO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":103124,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/council-pays-rogue-landlord-500000-in-housing-benefit\/","url_meta":{"origin":103156,"position":0},"title":"Council pays rogue landlord \u00a3500,000 in housing benefit","date":"January 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Bernard 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\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":103156,"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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