{"id":140313,"date":"2023-11-15T20:16:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/confiscate-properties-from-rogue-landlords-says-senior-labour-mp\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T20:36:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:36:40","slug":"confiscate-properties-from-rogue-landlords-says-senior-labour-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/confiscate-properties-from-rogue-landlords-says-senior-labour-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Confiscate properties from rogue landlords, says senior Labour MP"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nClive Betts says seizure threat would create \u2018significant deterrent\u2019 among those who treat fines as business cost\u2022 \u2018I was afraid of him\u2019: renting from one of London\u2019s landlordsRental homes should be confiscated from private landlords who repeatedly break the rules and exploit tenants, the head of the Commons housing committee has told the Guardian.Clive Betts, the chair of the levelling up, housing and communities select committee, said handing courts the power would create a \u201csignificant deterrent\u201d to landlords who treated fines for letting out squalid, unsafe and overcrowded homes as simply a cost of doing business.It was \u201cprobable\u201d the delayed ban on \u201cno-fault\u201d evictions would not come into effect until after the next general election. It was first promised by May in spring 2019.Squalor in private rented housing had been made worse and was underestimated because tenants were \u201csimply too frightened to report disrepair\u201d.Labour\u2019s policy to boost social housebuilding by negotiating harder to get private developers to build more would not solve the housing crisis. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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