{"id":165168,"date":"2025-11-19T01:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-guardian-view-on-rogue-landlords-past-failures-do-not-augur-well-for-the-new-era-editorial-of-renters-rights\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:23:55","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-rogue-landlords-past-failures-do-not-augur-well-for-the-new-era-editorial-of-renters-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-guardian-view-on-rogue-landlords-past-failures-do-not-augur-well-for-the-new-era-editorial-of-renters-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on rogue landlords: past failures do not augur well for the new era | Editorial of renters\u2019 rights"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIf the promise of a better private rental sector is to be realised, councils will need new staff as well as stricter rulesTenants need rights. Apart from food and water, shelter is the most basic human need and relevant to almost everyone all the time \u2013 unlike, say, healthcare, which most people do not use on a daily basis. A rebalancing of the law towards renters and away from landlords, which the government has done in its Renters\u2019 Rights Act, was sorely needed. Failures and abuses of power have been ignored for too long.With no-fault evictions outlawed from next May, and tougher oversight from a new ombudsman to follow, life should be about to get better for England\u2019s 4.6m households in the private rental sector. But will it? Troubling analysis by the Guardian shows that two-thirds of councils in England have not prosecuted a single landlord in the past three years, while nearly half didn\u2019t issue any fines either. Over the same period, fewer than 2% of complaints led to enforcement of any kind. Just 16 landlords were banned from letting homes \u2013 a shockingly low number, given the volume of complaints and what has been revealed about the sector by the worst scandals. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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